Browsing OU - Student Journals by Author "Farzaneh Center for Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies"
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Operation Eagle Claw : the ramifications of political divisions in U.S. decision-making during the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979-1981 Undergraduate
Bowman, Mary (2016)The taking of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in the fall of 1979 began a long, complicated 444 days of negotiations and frustrations in insuring the return home of the hostages. In early April 1980, President Jimmy Carter came ... -
Painful desires : the creation of the Iran-Contra affair Undergraduate
Rosenberger, Heath (2016)The Iran-Contra affair was one of the most significant scandals in 20th century U.S. history. Although the name, Iran-Contra, appears to mainly involve the Islamic Republic and the Nicaraguan rebels, the affair heavily ... -
Playing with Politics: Where Youthfulness and Politics Collide on Iran's Football Fields Undergraduate
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Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema: Unveiling the Reality of Iranian Women under the Islamic Republic Undergraduate
Viviani, Jocelyn (2019-02)In post-revolutionary Iran, cinema became a medium for social critique of the prevailing issues in modern Iranian society. The problems of women under the Islamic Republic became a major focal point in these post-revolutionary ... -
Power behind the pulpit : the rise of the Revolutionary Guard in post-1979 Iran Undergraduate
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Queer Theology: Theological, Theocratic, and Secular Influences on Iran's Relationship with Transgender Bodies Undergraduate
Oberlitner, Adam (2019-06)On November 13, 2005, the Iranian daily newspaper Kayhan published a story about the public execution of two young men named Mokhtar and Ali. The charge that brought them to the gallows of Shahid Bahonar Square, alleges ... -
Reworking Westoxification: Jalal Al-e Ahmad’s Original Conception of Westoxification and its Post-Revolutionary Reinvention Undergraduate
Crynes, Aubrey (2019-03)On October 19th, 2016, the Islamic Republic of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, posted an image on Instagram that depicts Uncle Sam standing in front of what appears to be a club-like entrance blocked off by red ... -
Ritual Impurity and the Decline of the Safavid Dynasty Undergraduate
Ball, Caleb (2018)The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw the rise of the Safavid dynasty and the establishment of Iran as a stronghold of Shi'a Islam. The body of research on these two centuries of Persian history provides us with a ... -
Spread of Shiʻism in Safavid Iran : religion and politics under Shah Ismail and Shah Tahmasp Undergraduate
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The Alternating Allegiances of the Ulama: Clerical Participation in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1905-11 Undergraduate
Bray, Mathew (2019-09)In the summer of 1906, a group of theology students and other constitutionalists gathered in Tehran for what was expected to be a peaceful protest in favor of government reforms, a continuation of the nascent Constitutional ... -
The Evolution of Gender Equality in Modern Iran Undergraduate
Eisenmann, Lindsey (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 Politics of Fashion in the Islamic Republic of Iran Undergraduate
Warrington, Sydney (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 ... -
The Question of Women's Agency in Iranian Cinema Undergraduate
Walker, Alexis (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 Value of Virtue: Depictions of Class and Morals in Iranian Cinema Undergraduate
Crynes, Aubrey (2018)The government of the Islamic Republic of Iran is no stranger to cinema's ability to encourage values and moral standards in a society. Since its inception, the Islamic Republic has recognized the power of cinema and, in ... -
Tur and Iraj: Azeri Turks and ‘Persian’ Iran Undergraduate
McAbee, Daniel (2019-07)Despite the prominence of the Middle East and Islamic world in Western news media, it is a region that suffers from severe misunderstanding. Out of the countries in those regions, Iran is perhaps the most poorly understood ... -
Unintended consequences : the impact of sanctions on the Iranian pharmaceutical industry Undergraduate
Vernon, Elizabeth (2016)The United States first imposed sanctions on Iran after a breakdown in diplomatic relations following the end of the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis. Many have debated whether these sanctions have had an actual effect on the ... -
Unlikely compromise : a history of the Iran-United States Claim Tribunal, 1981-2015 Undergraduate
Weigant, Patrick (2016)The Iran-United States Claims Tribunal was one of the twentieth century’s most important tribunals of international arbitration.1 Furthermore, it stood apart from the likes of the arbitral tribunals following the peace ... -
Who lost Iran? : a critical reassessment of U.S. foreign policy towards Iran, 1953-1979 Undergraduate
Eckenrode, Nicholas (2016)The air was crisp as President Jimmy Carter entered the building. Uncharacteristically cold, even by Iran’s standards. It was New Year’s Eve 1977 and Carter was making his first trip to Iran to continue the long standing ... -
Zoroastrians: Becoming a Minority in Their Homeland Undergraduate
Kepler, Travis (2018)It is arguable that no other religion has had more direct and indirect influence on humankind than that of the ancient Zoroastrian faith. This religion, which was the firstborn of the revealed world-religions, existed long ...