Contentions

R. K. Ramazani

Iran's Hostage Crisis: International Legitimacy Matters
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(2): 273-278 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-2-273 [PDF]  

Retrospectives on the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1905-1909

Houri Berberian

Traversing Boundaries and Selves: Iranian-Armenian Identities during the Iranian Constitutional Revolution
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(2): 279-296 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-2-279 [PDF]  

Susynne M. McElrone

Nineteenth-Century Qajar Women in the Public Sphere: An Alternative Historical and Historiographical Reading of the Roots of Iranian Women's Activism
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(2): 297-317 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-2-297 [PDF]  

Mansour Bonakdarian

A World Born through the Chamber of a Revolver: Revolutionary Violence, Culture, and Modernity in Iran, 1906-1911
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(2): 318-340 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-2-318 [PDF]  

Janet Afary

Civil Liberties and the Making of Iran's First Constitution
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(2): 341-359 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-2-341 [PDF]  

Ali Gheissari

Despots of the World Unite! Satire in the Iranian Constitutional Press: The Majalleh-ye Estebdad, 1907-1908
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(2): 360-376 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-2-360 [PDF]  

Arash Khazeni

The Bakhtiyari Tribes in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(2): 377-398 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-2-377 [PDF]  

Mangol Bayat

The Tale of the Quchan Maidens as an "Originator" Event of the Constitutional Revolution
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(2): 399-407 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-2-399 [PDF]  

Variorum

Mohammad Nafissi

Reformation, Islam, and Democracy: Evolutionary and Antievolutionary Reform in Abrahamic Religions
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(2): 408-438 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-2-408 [PDF]  

Stephen Sheehi

Arabic Literary-Scientific Journals: Precedence for Globalization and the Creation of Modernity
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(2): 439-449 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-2-439 [PDF]  

Polly Datta

The Issue of Discrimination in Indian Federalism in the Post-1977 Politics of West Bengal
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(2): 450-465 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-2-450 [PDF]  

Faridullah Bezhan

Satire in Modern Afghanistan
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(2): 466-480 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-2-466 [PDF]  

Wisam Mansour

Arab Women in Nizar Kabbani's Poetry
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(2): 481-487 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-2-481 [PDF]  

Sherry Lowrance

Being Palestinian in Israel: Identity, Protest, and Political Exclusion
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(2): 488-500 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-2-488 [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Husam Mohamad

Track-II Diplomacy: Lessons from the Middle East
Hussein Agha, Shai Feldman, Ahmad Khalidi, and Ze'ev Scheff Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003 225 pp., $44.00 (cloth), $22.00 (paper)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(2): 501-502 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-2-501 [PDF]  

Rebecca Gearhart

Playing with Identities in Contemporary Music in Africa
Mai Palmberg and Annemette Kirkegaard, eds. Uppsala, Sweden: Nordiska Afrikainstituet, 2002 182 pp., $27.90 (paper)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(2): 503-504 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-2-503 [PDF]  

Jamal R. Nassar

Islam and Democracy in the Middle East
Larry Jay Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, and Daniel Brumberg, eds. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003 322 pp., $25.00 (paper)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(2): 504-505 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-2-504 [PDF]  

Joseph J. Bangura

Screening Culture: Constructing Image and Identity
Heather Norris Nicholson Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2003 295 pp., $70.00 (cloth)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(2): 505-506 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-2-505 [PDF]  

Jonathan Gosnell

Nation-Building, Propaganda, and Literature in Francophone Africa
Dominic Thomas Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002 270 pp., $22.95 (paper)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(2): 507-508 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-2-507 [PDF]  

Martine M. Fernandes

Afrique sur Seine: Une nouvelle génération de romanciers africains à Paris
Odile Cazenave [In French only] Paris: L'Harmattan, 2003 311 pp.
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(2): 508-510 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-2-508 [PDF]  

Marie-Christine Garneau

Broken Lives and Other Stories
Anthonia C. Kalu, with a foreword by Emmanuel N. Obiechina Ohio University Research in International Studies, Africa Series no. 79 Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003 183 pp., $19.95 (paper)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(2): 510-511 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-2-510 [PDF]  

Njeri Mbugua

The Children of Africa Confront AIDS: From Vulnerability to Possibility
Arvind Singhal and W. Stephen Howard Ohio University Research in International Studies, Africa Series no. 80 Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003 265 pp.
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(2): 511-512 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-2-511 [PDF]  

Film Reviews

Sina Rahmani

Edward Said: The Last Interview; Selves and Others: A Portrait of Edward Said; The Battle of Algiers
Dir. Mike Dibb, 206 min. (extended version) London: ICA. www.ica.org.uk
Dir. Emmanuel Hamon, 2003. 54 min. Wamip Films. www.arabfilm.com
Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo. 125 min. French and Arabic with English subtitles. Criterion. www.criterionco.com
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(2): 513-515 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-2-513 [PDF]  

Firoozeh Papan-Matin

Mrs. President: Women and Political Leadership in Iran
Dir. Shahla Haeri, 2001. 47 min.
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(2): 515-516 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-2-515 [PDF]  

Contributors

Contributors
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(2): 517-518 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-2-517 [PDF]  

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