Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

The nationalization of the oil industry in the Islamic Republic of Iran is the manifestation of a clear-cut victory over ...

It begins with the decline of the British Empire and the rise of American power in the Gulf after the Second World War, in the face of Arab and Iranian nationalism. It then examines the long era of ...

(photo: Mahmud Efendi, courtesy www.akaKURDISTAN.com) The first -- and brief -- experiment in Kurdish self-rule took place in Iran, where Kurdish nationalism had been relatively quiet during the ...

“The Crossing Paths of Religion and Nationalism in Contemporary Iran.” In Nadim Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub Kevorkian, eds., When Politics are Sacralized: Comparative Perspectives on Religious Claims ...