GlobIS Review, Volume 1, Issue 1
Volume 1, Issue 1 October, 2023 Revolution & Counter-Revolution
GlobIS Review
Volume 1, Issue 1
October, 2023
Revolution & Counter-Revolution
Editorial Note
The 1979 Iranian revolution has received much academic attention worldwide, resulting in significant publications in the social sciences both within and outside of Iran. We have devoted the inaugural edition of the GlobIS Review to an in-depth discussion of the 1979 revolution, as recent uprisings have sparked new public interest in the concept of revolution in Iran….
Articles
Rereading the 1979 Revolution over Time
Azam Khatam
The 1979 revolution has been the main focus of research on Iran at Iranian studies academies across the world and is one of the key topics of the political science publications in Iran. The Islamic revolution was entirely unexpected because, in the late 1970s, Iran had a strong economy…
Social Science in Iran
A Passionate Return to the Islamic Revolution
Return to the Horizon of the Revolution: A Discursive Study of Contemporary Social and Political Evolutions، by Mohammad Javad Gholamreza Kashi
Behrang Sadighi
The title of the book Return to the Horizon of the Revolution is based on a transliteration of a one-day workshop in Iran held by the author in 2015. The book comprises five chapters: Society and Language, Different Levels of Language-Politics Connections…
Hell in the Cinema
Hell Cinema: Six Reports on Human Incineration at Cinema Rex, by Karim Nikunazar
Hamidreza Yousefi
More than four decades have passed since the Cinema Rex tragedy in Abadan, on August 19, 1978, brought the Pahlavi regime closer to the brink of downfall. Yet many questions remain unanswered. Cinema Hell: Six Reports on Human Incineration at Cinema Rex by Karim Nikunazar, recently published…
Iranian Studies in the World
The Loss of a Faraway Dream (Farsi)
Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment, by Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi
Fatemeh Sadeghi
Iran’s Quiet Revolution (Farsi)
Iran’s Quiet Revolution: The Downfall of the Pahlavi State, by Ali Mirsepassi
Peyman Jafari
Revolution in the Village (Farsi)
Days of Revolution: Political Unrest in an Iranian Village, by Mary Elaine Hegland
Navid Fozi
Ghosts of Revolution (Farsi)
Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran, by Shahla Talebi
Naghmeh Sohrabi
Middle East & World
Revolution without Revolutionaries (Farsi)
Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring, by Asef Bayat
Gianni Del Panta
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