nationalism

  • The Dangers of Nationalism: Lessons from Mansoor Hekmat

    The Dangers of Nationalism: Lessons from Mansoor Hekmat

    My acquaintance with Mansoor Hekmat began in 2004, during a time of turbulence, both in the world and in my own search for meaning. It was in Sanandaj, center city of Kurdistan province in Iran, in the quiet defiance of an underground gathering, that I met a group of members…

  • Iran: The Construction of a National Identity

    Iran: The Construction of a National Identity

    A critical study of how Iranian nationalism, itself largely influenced by Orientalist scholarship first undertaken by the European Orientalists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, has shaped modern conceptions of Iran and Iranian identity, as well as narratives of Iranian history, leading to the adoption of a broad nationalist construction…

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