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Ideology and Reality: Afghans in Iran Undergraduate
(2018)
The Islamic Republic of Iran is a revolutionary state which derives its legitimacy on the basis of revolutionary pan-Islamism. Despite this, as the memory of the revolution recedes into the past, Iranian nationalism and ...
The Evolution of Gender Equality in Modern Iran Undergraduate
(2018)
Earlier this fall in Iran, there was a bit of uproar as the Iranian football team faced Syria in Iran. While women were initially able to purchase tickets, they were barred from entering the game and left outside to watch ...
The Way of Death: Abortion’s Path to Criminalization During the Middle Ages Undergraduate
(2018)
A lightning rod of controversy since the Middle Ages, abortion has both been condemned as the “way of death” and championed as a tool of female liberation (Elsakkers, “Reading Between the Lines” 468). Current debates over ...
The Question of Women's Agency in Iranian Cinema Undergraduate
(2018)
Trying to pinpoint individual acts of agency within cinema can be difficult. This is especially true within Iranian cinema because agency takes different forms than viewers would assume. The term agency itself is ambiguous. ...
The Politics of Fashion in the Islamic Republic of Iran Undergraduate
(2018)
In the Islamic Republic of Iran, the world's only existing theocracy, the relationship between the state and society cannot exist mutually exclusive of one another, considering that the regime's legitimacy is contingent ...
Iran's Others through Cinema: Ethnicity and the Politics of Representation in Contemporary Iran Undergraduate
(2018)
With all the politically issues and social animosity surrounding Iran today, the Islamic Republic has become a focus for international attention and critique, especially if one might watch Fox News on any given evening — ...
Bad People or Harmful Pasts? A Look into How Abuse Affects Deviance Undergraduate
(2018)
Using data from the 2004 Survey of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities, an analytical sample of 3,277 prisoners were used to examine the gendered relationship between suffering abuse and engaging in deviant ...
Exercising Agency: Contesting Cultural Imperialism in the Depiction of Muslim Women Undergraduate
(2018)
In ancient times, the Silk Road brought foreign treasures and precious goods from a distant East to the people of Western Europe, instilling a fascination with the rich and mysterious ‘Orient.’ As colonialism heightened ...
DĀNESH : the OU undergraduate journal of Iranian studies. Volume 3, 2018 Undergraduate
(2018)
We are so proud to present to you the third volume of the University of Oklahoma's Undergraduate Journal in Iranian Studies, DĀNESH. Through two editions of the journal we have seen wonderful presentations on varying ...
Spectral and Stochastic Solutions to Boundary Value Problems on Magnetic Graphs Undergraduate
(2018)
A magnetic graph is a graph G equipped with an orientation structure σ on its edges. The discrete magnetic Laplace operator LσG, a second-order difference operator for complex-valued functions on the vertices of G, has ...