Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia

Title Publication Date Language Citations
Purkhani as a ‘healing drama’: Analysis of a healing performance among Turkmen people of Iran2013/08/18
REVIEW - Lettre à Mohamed/A Letter to Mohamed. Dir. Christine Moderbacher. 35 mns. Sixpackfilm, 2013.2014/09/22
REVIEW - Schwanitz, Wolfgang G. Islam in Europa, Revolten im Mittelost: Islamismus und Genozid von Wilhelm II und Enver Pascha über Hitler und al-Husaini bis Arafat, Usama Bin Ladin und Ahmadinejad sowie Gespräche mit Bernard Lewis, xii+784 pp. Berlin: tr2016/09/19
REVIEW - Ameer Got his Gun. Dir. Naomi Levari. Col. 58 mns. Hebrew and Arabic. Black Sheep Film Productions, 2011.2014/09/22
REVIEW - Rasanayagam, Johan. Islam in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan: The Morality of Experience. xiii + 281 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.2014/03/10
Chief Editor’s introduction2014/03/10
Chief Editor’s introduction2015/03/06
Mapping the political discourse of the Iranian Green Movement2017/11/28
REVIEW - Pemberton, Kelly. Women Mystics and Sufi Shrines in India. 233 pp. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2010.2015/03/06
Autoethnography as documentary in Iranian films and videos2014/03/10
REVIEW - 77 Steps. Dir. Ibtisam Mara’ana-Menuhin. Col. 56 mns. Ibtisam Films Documentary, 2010. Write Down, I am an Arab. Dir. Ibtisam Mara’ana-Menuhin. Col. 73 mns. Ibtisam Films Documentary, 2014.2015/03/06
REVIEW - Gringolandia. Dir. Dennis Lanson. 54 mns. Documentary Educational Resources, 2011.2013/08/17
REVIEW - Alsultany, Evelyn and Ella Shobat (eds.). Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora. ix + 334 pp. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2013.2015/12/03
REVIEW - Khosronejad, Pedram (ed.). Iranian Sacred Defence Cinema: Religion, Martyrdom and National Identity. Canon Pyon: Sean Kingston Publishing, 2012.2014/03/10
REVIEW- Himself He Cooks. Dirs. Valérie Berteau, Philippe Witjes. 65 mns. Polymorfilms, 2012.2016/09/19
REVIEW - Behind the Wheel. Dir. Elise Laker. 20 mns. Uzbek with English and Czech subs. The University of Manchester, 2013.2015/12/01
REVIEW - Doing this is Great! Dir. and prod. Kadri Koop. 11 mns. Chinese with English subs. 2013. Vimeo.2015/12/01
REVIEW - Karimi, Pamela. Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran: Interior Revolutions of the Modern Era. 262 pp. Routledge, 2012.2014/09/22
Editorial2014/09/22
REVIEW - Khosronejad, Pedram. Les Lions en Pierre Sculptée chez les Bakhtiari: Description et significations de sculptures zoomorphes dans une société tribale du sud-ouest de l’Iran. 260 pp. Canon Pyon: Sean Kingston Publishing, 2013.2014/03/10
Chief Editor’s welcome2013/08/18
REVIEW - The Road to Kurdistan. Dir. and prod. Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri. 54 mns. Kurdish (Sorani dialect), Farsi with English subs. 2013.2015/12/01
REVIEW - The Good Son. Dir. Shirly Birkovitz. Prod. Shirly Birkovitz and Noam Pinchas. Col. 52 mns. Cat&Docs, 2014.2015/03/06
REVIEW - Bön: Mustang to Menri. Dir. Tad Fetting. Col. 60 mns. Documentary Educational Resources, 2011.2014/03/10
REVIEW - Hélie, Anissa and Homa Hoodfar (eds.). Sexuality in Muslim Contexts: Restrictions and Resistance. xiv + 346pp. New York: Zed Books, 2012.2015/12/03
REVIEW - Mirzai, Behnaz A. A History of Slavery and Emancipation in Iran, 1800–1929. 324 pp. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017.2017/11/28
REVIEW - Same River Twice. Dir. Effi Weiss, Amir Borenstein, Cyril Bibas. Prod. Kathleen de Bethune, Cyril Bibas, Michel Steyaert (CVB: Centre Vidéo de Bruxelles). Dist. Claudine Van O, Philippe Cotte. English with French-English subs. 110 mns. 2013.2017/11/28
REVIEW - Karagiannis, Emmanuel. Political Islam in Central Asia: The Challenge of Hizb ut-Tahrir. xiv + 172 pp. London: Routledge, 2010.2015/12/03
A rare Bakhtiari Sufi manuscript: genealogy of Siyid Muhammad Parhizkar (Part 2)2015/03/06
REVIEW ESSAY - Representations of war in Iranian cinema: fragments of an irretrievable past2013/08/18