One Hundred Years of Persian Classical Music
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Mehdi Rezania
- 23 Min To Read
- 11 Oct, 2021
I am grateful to Professor Rob Simms who read the first draft of this essay and gave me invaluable suggestions.
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Forugh Farrokhzad: An Appreciation
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Christian Petrillo
- 14 Min To Read
- 21 Sep, 2021
Editor’s introduction: The encounter with modernity is a major theme in Iran‘s story during the past hundred years. During this period, perhaps no other poet in modern Iran symbolizes the struggle with modernity more than Forugh Farrokhzad, who, along with her poetry, is the subject of the following essay.
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Iran’s “Independence” Development Strategy
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Rasool Nafisi
- 20 Min To Read
- 19 Apr, 2021
Introduction The question of development of the non-industrial world, often called pejoratively “the third world,” used to be a major theme in the academic as well as political world throughout the cold war era.
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The Image and Reality of Iran's 100-year-old Approach to Modernity
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Aram Hessami
- 12 Min To Read
- 07 Nov, 2020
This is a transcription of Dr. Aram Hessami’s interview with the Iran 1400 project. The Historical Context Iran’s past 100 years should be called the century of modernity and its discontent.
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The Image and Reality of Iran's 100-year-old Approach to Modernity
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Ramin Jahanbegloo
- 12 Min To Read
- 20 Sep, 2020
This is a translation of Dr. Ramin Jahanbegloo’s interview with the Iran 1400 project. Modernity Defined The concept of modernity, as we know it today, refers to a particular period in the history of humanity and especially the history of the West because modernity was initially formed and shaped in the West with its new outlook about the world and human beings in it.
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Wrestling with Modernity Contending Visions of Religion and Religiosity in Iran since 1941
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Sajjad Elmi Sarai
- 48 Min To Read
- 20 Sep, 2020
With the intervention of the Allied forces in Iran and the abdication of Reza Shah in 1941, there was a new opening of the social-political atmosphere in Iran.
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