Googoosh’s Voice

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farzaneh Hemmasi
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Iranian Revolution ◽  
Pop Music ◽  
Islamic Republic ◽  
The World ◽  
Islamic Republic Of Iran ◽  
New Phase

Born in 1950, Googoosh began her career as a child actor on stage, television and film; by her twenties, she was the country’s primary female interpreter of musiqi-yi pap (Western-influenced “pop music”). Following the Iranian revolution and the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1980, Googoosh’s fame became a liability. The revolutionary project involved purifying Iran of its “colonized” culture; moral corruption and unveiled “lust-inciting” women. Then, in 2000 Googoosh left Iran to restart her career in exile, landing first in Toronto and then settling in Los Angeles. She embarked on a new phase of her career singing her prerevolutionary romantic repertoire but also with a declaration of her intention to “give voice” to herself, to Iran and Iranians around the world. This chapter argues that the metaphorical “voicing” Googoosh performed on behalf of “those inside Iran” was an extension of an already-established pattern in which she blurred the line between celebrity as exceptional individual and celebrity as medium for collective expression.

Paul Chu, Anthony Leggett and Warren Pickett in Iran

2014 ◽  
Vol 03 (02) ◽  
pp. 16-16
Author(s):  
APPN Editorial Team
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Weapon ◽  
International Community ◽  
Iranian Revolution ◽  
Islamic Republic ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Islamic Republic Of Iran ◽  
First Time

In 2013, the Islamic Republic of Iran, for the first time since its government replaced the Shah's government after the Iranian Revolution in 1979, came to the forefront of the international community to negotiate a deal- a deal that would limit its nuclear weapon stockpiles which it has kept hidden from the world even in the face of political isolation.

scholarly journals Review of Tehrangeles Dreaming: Intimacy and Imagination in Southern California Iranian Pop Music by Farzaneh Hemmasi (Duke Press)

Lateral ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Siavash Rokni
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Music Industry ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Iranian Revolution ◽  
Pop Music ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
Iranian Diaspora

Tehrangeles Dreaming is the first book about the Tehrangeles music industry, that is, the Iranian diaspora music industry brought to life by the expatriate Iranian artists and music producers who settled in Los Angeles and Southern California after the 1979 Iranian revolution. Farzaneh Hemmasi uses an ethnographic approach in combination with an analysis of diaspora media discourse in order to “examine expatriate imaginations of influence on, and intimacy with, their global Iranian audiences” (26). At its core, the book deals with the imagining and reimagining of Iranian identity by the artistic community that creates music and media content for Iranians in Iran and across the world.

scholarly journals CULTURE FACTOR IN THE POLICY OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-71
Author(s):  
Marina Kameneva ◽  
Elena Paymakova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Islamic Republic ◽  
The West ◽  
The Public ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
The World ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
Islamic Republic Of Iran ◽  
Cultural Expansion

The article notes that the theme of culture and cultural policy for modern Iran is not a marginal issue. Culture is seen by the country’s leadership as an important component of its state political and ideological doctrine. There is analyzed the role of the Islamic factor and cultural heritage in the cultural policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran over four decades of its existence. Particular attention is paid to the role of the theory of the dialogue of civilizations proposed by M. Khatami as well as to the changing attitude towards it in the public consciousness of Iranian society. It is emphasized that the theme of “Iran and the West” is becoming particularly acute in the country today, contributing to its politicization. An attempt is being made to show that Iranian culture is increasingly becoming an important factor in the foreign policy activities of the leadership of the Islamic Republic of Iran, contributing to the strengthening of the country’s position in the world arena as a whole and the country’s leading role in the region, the realization of the idea of exporting the Islamic Revolution and implementing Iranian cultural expansion outside the country.

Reconsidering the Iranian Revolution, Forty Years Later

2019 ◽  
Vol 118 (812) ◽  
pp. 343-348
Author(s):  
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi
Keyword(s):  
Iranian Revolution ◽  
Islamic Republic ◽  
The World

Today it is hard to imagine the connection between the world that revolutionary impulse envisioned and the actuality it generated in the Islamic Republic.

scholarly journals Iran's Health Tourism Market during and after the Corona Pandemic and: Letter to the editor

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hojjat Rahmani ◽  
Mohammad Arab ◽  
Jalal Saeedpour ◽  
Ghasem Rajabi Vasokolaei ◽  
Hiwa Mirzaii
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Islamic Republic ◽  
Health Tourism ◽  
Seek Health Care ◽  
Letter To The Editor ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
The World ◽  
Islamic Republic Of Iran

The importance of maintaining and restoring health has always made human beings seek health care. Lack of proper access to health care, price and quality differences, as well as other factors among different countries have led to the formation of a long-standing industry called health tourism. Outbreak of coronavirus throughout the world has shocked and affected most countries. In this regard, the health tourism market of Islamic Republic of Iran was no an exception and was affected by this crisis. To meet this challenge, stakeholders of the health tourism market should determine their recession during this period, strengthen their weaknesses, and use the available opportunities. In this study, we intended to investigate effect of the coronavirus prevalence on the health tourism market of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

scholarly journals The Breakaway Boss: Semiperipheral Innovations and the Rise of Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 417-447
Author(s):  
Kevan Harris
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social World ◽  
Modernization Theory ◽  
Engineering Student ◽  
Islamic Republic ◽  
Historical Figure ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Charismatic Authority ◽  
Islamic Republic Of Iran

Within a year of becoming president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad had already confused much of the world. Explanations of his political ascent in a semi-peripheral country rely largely on the concept of charismatic authority. This is a non-explanation, however, as the charismatic historical figure who seemingly holds creative command over the social world also has to be created. Instead, I argue that Ahmadinezhad’s trajectory from an Islamist engineering student to the presidency of a post-revolutionary state highlights three mechanisms of social-political innovation that are bounded by space and time: the situated overlap of social capital, the paradox of vertical clientage, and the breakaway of the machine boss. These mechanisms are usually misread as timeless signifiers of national backwardness or as charismatic dei ex machina. By showing these mechanisms at work through biography, we can challenge scholarly and popular explanations of social change that implicitly rehash modernization theory.

Banking and Credit Rationing Under the Islamic Republic of Iran

1992 ◽  
Vol 25 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 51-65
Author(s):  
Mehrdad Valibeigi
Keyword(s):  
Banking System ◽  
Credit Rationing ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Iranian Revolution ◽  
Free Banking ◽  
Islamic Republic ◽  
Financial Contracts ◽  
Revolutionary Change ◽  
Islamic Republic Of Iran ◽  
The Revolution

Since the Iranian revolution of 1979, the Iranian banking system and practices have changed significantly. Shortly after the revolution, according to a decree by the Revolutionary Council, banks and insurance companies were nationalized. In 1980 and 1982 legislation was passed to convert all banking practices to Islamic interest-free banking. Despite such significant developments in the Iranian banking system, this area of research has not been given its due attention by the scholars in the field. It is the purpose of this study to describe the process of post-revolutionary change in the Iranian banking system and outline the new trends in credit rationing practices after the revolution.It will be argued here that the Islamization of the banking system did not result in the so-called abolition of interest from the financial system; in practice the banking system continues to pay interest—now called “profit“—to savings account depositors, and standard interest-bearing financial contracts continue to be utilized by the banks under new Islamic terms.

Shaping Shiʿa Identities in Contemporary Indonesia between Local Tradition and Foreign Orthodoxy

2014 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiara Formichi
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Iranian Revolution ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Islamic Republic ◽  
Local Tradition ◽  
West Sumatra ◽  
Islamic Republic Of Iran ◽  
Local Traditions ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This article reflects on the impact of transnational flows of students, pilgrims, and literature from Iran to Indonesia on the shaping of Shiʿa Islam in Indonesia since 1979, with a focus on the post-Suharto era (1998–2012) and the performance of ʿ Āshūrāʾ commemorative rituals. Since the early days of its Islamization, Southeast Asia has featured several literary and ritual practices rooted in a combination of Islamic and local traditions; most notable are those expressing patterns of pre-sectarian devotion towards the ahl al-bayt – drawing a parallel with Marshall Hodgson’s framework of ʿAlid piety (1955). Based on ethnographic and archival research, the author suggests that in the decades following the Iranian revolution some of these practices were abandoned in favour of a paradigm of devotion promoted by the Islamic Republic of Iran. The polarization of practices, and the relationship between organizations representative of these two approaches, is illustrated through an analysis of the performative means used to represent the tragedy of Karbala during ʿĀshūrāʾ events in Bandung, Bengkulu (West Sumatra), and Jakarta in 2011. In Bandung the play “Tragedi Karbala” was performed by a Sundanese theatrical group staging a local text; in Bengkulu the traditional Festival Tabot took place following a pattern determined by the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture in the early 1970s but now under the sponsorship of the Iranian Embassy; the  Jakarta event featured a taʿziya troupe brought from Iran by the Embassy’s cultural office.


scholarly journals Offensive Realism: The US Strategies to Contain Iran

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-103
Author(s):  
Munawar Hussain Panhwar ◽  
Ronaque Ali Behan
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Islamic Republic ◽  
Islamic Revolution ◽  
Realist Approach ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Islamic Republic Of Iran ◽  
Offensive Realism ◽  
Tremendous Impact

The Islamic Revolution, as one of the greatest political developments in thetwentieth century - caused a radical change in the Iranian political system.Consequently, it has posed a tough challenge for the American politics inprotecting its significant interests in the region. Since then, the US hasemployed multiple methods to contain the growing influence of Iran which hasleft the tremendous impact on its interests in the region. Similar, approacheshave been used against many other countries of the world where the Americaninterests have been affected. Thus, understanding the US tools and strategiesused against the Islamic Republic of Iran would help independent countriesbetter to confront with the similar problems. This research tries to respondthis question that what were the US strategies to control and contain theIslamic Republic in the last four decades? Mearsheimer's offensive realismhas been used to answer that question. The offensive realist approach hasbeen extensively discussed to find out the similar patterns in the US strategytowards Iran. The results of this article clearly point to the several USstrategies to control the power and maintain an influence of the IslamicRepublic of Iran in the Middle East which has posed the potential challengesto the American interests in the said region.

scholarly journals The net present value of human lives lost due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the Islamic Republic of Iran

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joses M. Kirigia ◽  
Rose Nabi Deborah Karimi Muthuri ◽  
Newton Gitonga Muthuri
Keyword(s):  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Economic Model ◽  
Net Present Value ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Discount Rates ◽  
Islamic Republic ◽  
Present Value ◽  
The World ◽  
Islamic Republic Of Iran

Abstract Objective As of 11 April 2020, there were 68,192 confirmed cases, including 4,232 deaths. This study aimed to estimate the net present value of human lives lost due to COVID-19 in Iran as of 11 April 2020.Results The 4,232 human lives lost had a total net present value of Int$ 436,275,007. The average net present value per human life was Int$103,090. Re-estimation of the economic model with 5% and 10% discount rates resulted in a reduction in the expected total net present value by Int$ 64,881,144 (14.9%) and Int$ 168,066,782 (38.5%), respectively. Additional re-calculation of the economic model using the highest life expectancy in the world (i.e., that of the Japanese Females) increased the total net present value of human lives lost by 114%.

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