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Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet - Heroes to Hostages, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

Heroes to Hostages

America and Iran, 1800-1988

Av Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet

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It is easy to forget, given the oppositional dynamic between Iran and the United States of the last 50 years, that these two countries once shared productive partnership. Tracing US-Iran relations over two turbulent centuries, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet considers when and how this relationship went awry. With careful attention to social and cultural as well as diplomatic developments, Kashani-Sabet shows that the rift did not originate in flashpoints of crisis, like the 1953 coup or the 1979 Islamic Revolution, but was instead long in the making. Drawing from a wealth of English and Persian-language sources, many of which were previously unavailable or unacknowledged, this book considers the relationship from the vantage point of Iranian society and the experiences of an evolving Iran that strived to accommodate American and great power politics. Following these two nations through wars, decolonization, and revolution, Kashani-Sabet presents an invaluable history of a diplomatic rivalry that informs geopolitics to this day.
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Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Frontier Fictions: Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804-1946 (1999), which has been translated to Persian and Turkish. Excerpts from this work informed an art exhibition in Baku, Azerbaijan (Yarat Centre, 2019). Kashani-Sabet subsequently published Conceiving Citizens: Women and the Politics of Motherhood in Iran (2011), which won the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies Book Award. Kashani-Sabet is also the author of a novel, Martyrdom Street (2010), and a co-edited volume, Gender in Judaism and Islam: Common Lives, Uncommon Heritage (2014).

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'Professor Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet analyses and historicises the broken bridges within the US-Iranian relationship. She weaves a story that is both personal and political, rich in detail and insight that is placed within a broader Middle Eastern scope. The book challenges stereotypes of Iran and Islam, moves away from simplistic explanations for the present, and holds governments and leaders on both sides accountable. She restores humanity in history and seeks common ground from which some mutual understanding can emerge.' Rowena Abdul Razak, London School of Economics

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