INDEX

Ab, Bad, Khak 324
Abadan 311, 314
Abbasid revolution 42
“ABC Manhattan” (1997) 122, 314–15
ABC News 170
Abdoh, Reza 124–25
“Abduction from Seraglio” 105
Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Ahmad 40
Abu Assad, Hany 319
Abu Ghraib 35, 52, 116, 185, 189, 194, 230, 247
Abu Zayd, Nasr Hamid 257
Achamanid Empire 301
Adab. See literary humanism
Adams, Abigail 40
Adorno, Theodore 74
Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan (1824) 106
Aeschylus’ 105, 303, 309
aesthetic modernity 208–11
aestheticization 4–10, 15–17, 21–22, 24, 30–32, 64, 72–74, 76–79, 92, 94–95, 104–7, 113–15, 124–25, 127–30, 133–35, 144–46, 149–53, 157, 168–69, 173, 179–80, 183–84, 188, 191–92, 195–96, 203–5, 208–13, 220, 222, 224, 226–27, 230–31, 234, 236–39, 241–45, 249, 264–65, 281–85, 288, 290–91, 317–18, 327
Aesthetics of Domination 226
Aesthetics of Indifference 226
Afghanistan 26, 29, 34, 37, 55, 74, 94, 99, 129, 131, 135–6, 171, 219, 225–6, 256, 258, 305, 310, 317, 328, 335
Afkhami, Mahnaz 33, 36
“After the Last Day” (1969) 85
Aghdashloo, Aydin 22–23, 114–15, 173, 190, 235, 244
Aghdashloo, Shohreh 134, 162
Ahl-e Gharq 85
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud 258
Ahsa’i, Shyakh Ahmad 155–57
AIDS in Africa: “ABC Africa” (2001) 136
Akbari, Mania 179
Akhondzadeh, Mirza Fath Ali 42, 200
Akin, Fatih 104
Akkad, Moustapha 259
Akkas-khaneh 206
Al-Ghazali 48, 154
Al-Ghoussein, Tarek 23, 215–27
al-Qatami, Laila 295
AlamNiswan/The world of Women 44
al-Asfar al-Arba’a/The Four Journeys 48
al-Afghani, Seyyed Jamalal-Din 47
Al-e Ahmad, Jalal 21, 49, 110
Abu al-Fida’ 48
Aljazeera 26, 105
Ali, Ayaan Hirsi 73, 257
Ali al-Nizami al-Arudi al-Samarqandi 41
“alienation effect” 100
Alizadeh, Ghazaleh 86
“All Hell Let Loose” 113
Allen, Woody 101
Allende, Salvador 137
al-Munqidhmin al-Dhalal/ Deliverance from Darkness 48
American English parlance 55
American imperialism 305, 309
Americana 267
Amirshahi, Mahshid 85, 113
amnesia 89–90, 133, 263, 318
Anderson, Benedict 222
anticolonial modernity 210
Antonioni, Michelangelo 311
“Apocalypse Now” (1979) 335
Aql-e Sorkh 212
Arab and Muslim World 1–3, 16, 194
Arab artists 77
“Arabic Art” 3, 130
“Ararat” (2002) 225
Architecture of Desert (Memari) 206
art exhibitions 5, 20, 74, 76–77, 99, 101, 104, 120, 285, 311
Art Institute of Chicago (1999) 167
Asayesh, Gelareh 32
Asrar al-Tawhid fi Maqamat Shaykh Abi Sa’id (967–1048) 48
Assar, Seyyed Kazem 37
astral body. See Jism A
Ataman, E. Kutlug 290
Ataturk, Mustafa Kemal 141
Atta, Mohammad 101
aufgehoben 196
authenticity 109–10, 112, 120, 124–25, 127, 134–35, 149, 157, 244, 271, 325
autobiographical narratives 4, 28, 30–33, 36, 38–39, 48, 50
“autobiographical” 30
AvayeVahsh/The Call of the Wild 53
Avaz-e Par-e Jibrai’l 212
Avenge But One of My Two Eyes (2005) 225
Avicenna 48, 212
Azari, Shoja 253–62
Azzawi, Dia 23
Baader Meinhof Gang 137
Babi movement 43, 93, 155
Bahar/Spring 45–46
Baharestan Square 115
Bahrampour, Tara 30–31, 33
Bakri, Mohammad 221
BandeDessinée (BD) 28, 50, 56–57
Bani-Ahmad, Bizhan 128
Bani-Etemad, Rakhshan 32, 128, 136, 177, 179, 328
“Baran and the Native” (1999) 135–36
Bardot, Brigitte 26
Barmak, Sadiq 135–36
Barthes, Roland 8, 24, 65, 203, 215
Bashir, Ala 23
Bates, Tyler 305
Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC) 301
Baudrillard, Jean 78, 105, 107, 112, 128, 135, 196, 222, 226, 283, 289, 292
Bavarian parliament 71
BBC News (World Edition) 99
“Beaufort” (2007) 331–32
Behel kin asman-e pak 250
Behesht-e Zahra 117
Beijing 287–88, 292
Beiza’i, Bahram 257, 328
Benjamin, Walter 21, 24, 143, 263, 285, 325
Beny, Roloff 118
Berlin 5, 9, 46, 71, 77, 87, 100, 102, 109, 111–14, 120–21, 289, 292
Bertolucci, Bernardo 123, 311
Bhabha, Homi 104–5, 222–23, 286
Bhagwati, Jagdish 287
Bi-Qarar“Turbulent” (1998) 158–59, 180–81
“Bibi Khanom’s Starling” (1968) 85
Bidoun: Art and Culture from the Middle East 130
Biennale of Sydney (1996) 167
“The Blind Alley” (1966) 85
The Blind Owl (1937) 125, 199
The Blindfold Horse, A Girl in Paris (1991) 37–38
bin Laden, Osama 9, 74, 76, 105, 135, 293, 295, 326
biographical dictionaries 41, 48–49
“Blackboard” 135
bodily portrayals 139
bodily resurrection 7, 91, 144, 147–48, 150, 152–58, 161–62, 164, 329
Bonami, Francesco 174
Bononcini, Giovanni 303
The Book of the City of Ladies (1405) 40
Book of Genesis 89
Booth-Clibborn, Edward 118–19, 121
“Born on the Fourth of July” (1989) 335
Bourgeoisie 170, 172, 181, 287, 303
“Boy and Bicycle” (1965) 293
Bradford, Ernle 304
Brakhage, Stan 132
“Bread and the Alley” (1970) 293
Brecht, Bertolt 53, 100
Britannica 267
The Brooklyn Museum of Fine Arts 270
The Brothers Karamazov 237, 248
Buñuel, Louis 172
Bush, George W. 35, 74, 76, 79, 234, 282, 305, 309, 335
Bustan 48
Button 296
Cairo 280, 287–88, 292, 320
Camera Lucida /La Chambreclaire (1980) 215
Cannes Film Festival 72, 99, 134–36, 283
Capa, Robert 203
carnal coating. See also human body
carocorporalis 154–58, 164
carospiritualis 154, 156–58, 164
Cartledge, Paul 304
Castello di Rivoli Museo d’ArteContemporanea (2002) 168
Cavalli, Francesco 303
Cedar, Yossef 331–32
Central Asian art 131
Central Committee of the Iranian Women Party 47
Ceremonies (1973) 235
Césaire, Aimé 16
Ceylan, Nuri Bilge 279
chador 29, 176. See also veil
Chakrabarty, Dipesh 104, 107, 286–87, 290
Chalipa, Kazem 37, 114
Chaudhary, Ajay 21
Cherik-ha-ye Fada’iKhalq organizations 37
Cherkawi, Abderrahman 299
Chinese globality 149
Christian Empire 131, 234, 249
Christo and Jeanne-Claude 117
Chubak, Sadeq 126, 328
civilizational designations 132
civilizational thinking 119
“Clash of Civilizations” (1993) 119–20
Clinton, Bill 31, 234
Clinton, Hillary Rodham 31
codex classicus 223
Coffee-house Painting 202, 211, 254, 256
coloniality 142–43
“comics” 56
commercialization 105
committed art 237
“Conference of the Birds” 264
Conrad, Joseph 293
Constitutional Revolution of 1906–1911 43–46, 231–32
“Contemporary Art” 131
Corliss, Richard 296
“The Cousin is Lost” (2000) 136
Critique of Judgment 226, 285
Critique of Pure Reason (1781 and 1787) 227, 284, 289
Crusader’s jails 48, 251
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes 295
“Crystal Pendants” 80
“Cultural Paradox” 107
cultural translations 78
curator 4, 6, 17, 22–23, 77, 106–8, 114, 124, 180, 273, 283
Curie, Marie 45
Current Events (1973) 235
“The Cursed Land” 117
“Cyclist” (1987) 135
Cyrus 30, 180, 307–9
Dabashi, Hamid 1–11
Dabiri 40–41
Daftar-ha-ye Zamaneh 232
Daily Telegraph 293, 295
“Dancer in the Dark” (2000) 326
Danesh/Knowledge 44
Daneshvar, Simin 49, 84
Dar Hazar 85
“Dare to Know” 212
Darroudi, Iran 130
Dasein 236
Dastan-ha-ye Del-Angiz-e Adabiyat-eFarsi 83
Daughter of Persia (1992) 38
Davandeh “Runner” (1985) 315
Davis, Miles 123
“The Day I became a Woman” (2000) 136
Day of Judgement 155–57, 161–62, 164
Day of Resurrection 8–9, 153, 161, 254, 256
Dayereh-ye GachiQafqazi/The Caucasian Chalk Circle 53
De Kooning, Willem 273
de Montaigne, Michel 301
“Dead Presidents” (1995) 335
Debord, Guy 24
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1794) 74
“Deer Hunter” (1978) 335
In Defense of Globalization 287
Deghati, Reza 200
Dehbashi, Ali 121
Dehghani, Ashraf 37–38, 177
Delbanco, Andrew 326
Delkash 177
Derambakhsh, Kambiz 266
Dershowitz, Alan 194
de-territorialization 127, 129, 134–35, 286
Deyhim, Sussan 123, 161–63, 181, 183–84
“Dialogue of Civilization” 158
Diary 32, 36
diasporic communities 229
Die Entf ü hrungaus dem Serail (“Abduction from the Seraglio” 1782) 281
distancing effect 5–6, 73, 100–1, 104–6, 112, 221, 259, 288
Divine Intervention 224
Djebar, Assia 36, 175
Documenta 11 (2002) 168
“The Dog and the Long Winter” 80
“Dogville” (2004) 326
Dolatabadi, Mahmoud 128, 224
Dolatabadi, Sedigheh 44
“Door” (1999) 136
“Drawn Strips” 56
The Duellists” (1977) 293
Dumas, Firoozeh 35
E’tesami, Parvin 45, 231
Eagleton, Terry 21
Earthly Paradise 156
“East and West” 94
the East and the West archetypes 110
Eastasian thinking 15
Ebadi, Shirin 177
Edwardes, Charlotte 293
El Saadawi, Nawal 36
El-Salahi, Ibrahim Mohammed 23
Eltehab “Fervor” (2000) 158, 161–62, 180–81
Embracing the Infidel: Stories of Muslim Migrant on the Journey West (2005) 286
Embroideries (2005) 28, 52, 56, 58, 65–66
Encyclopedia Iranica 134, 267
Enemy of Lies 241
éngagéart 238
England, Lynndie 35, 74, 187
epistemic premises 119
estrangement 114, 260
Etemadi, Parvaneh 114
E’tesami, Parvin 45, 177, 231
ethnos 106
Êtresingulierpluriel/Being Singular Plural (2000) 25
“Eurabia” 74
Europe 3–4, 16–20, 26, 28, 32–33, 46, 49–50, 52, 55–57, 59–60, 72–77, 79, 83, 92–93, 95, 100–3, 105–6, 113, 125–26, 131, 142, 183, 196, 209, 235, 249–51, 280–83, 288–91, 313, 315, 318, 325, 334
European
art exhibitions 104
asylum houses 74
Enlightenment 75
Holocaust 15
Muslims 91
Romanticism 134
thinking 15
Union 74
“exile” 102, 107, 229
Exiled Memories: Stories of the Iranian Diaspora (2000) 33
“exilic community” 104
Fadjr International Film festival 101
Fallaci, Oriana 26
“Far Near Distance” 101
Farman Farmaian, Sattareh 38
Farmanara, Bahman 80, 184, 328
Farrokhzad, Forough 31–32, 38, 47, 65, 79, 81, 87–90, 132, 139, 142, 146, 157, 177, 195, 202
Farshchian, Mahmoud 115, 128
Farsi 308
Female Warriors of Allah: Women and the Islamic Revolution (1989) 29
feminism international 45, 74–75, 93, 220
Ferdowsi 117, 202, 211
Ferguson, Niall 74
fetishism 143, 195
fetishization 114, 118, 120, 127, 190
fetishizing 106, 111, 119–20, 191
Fetneh“Possessed” 158, 162–63, 181, 186–87, 189, 191, 193
The Fifth Majlis (1996–2000) 178
Fi Halat al-Tufuliyyah 212
Financial Times 148, 150
Fincher, David 123
First Blast of the Trumpet of Resurrection 156
First Gulf War (1990–1991) 219, 355
First Intifada 219
“First Person Singular” (1970) 85
Fitzgerald, Edward 105–6, 133
“Five o’clock in the Afternoon” 135
Folman’s, Ari 331, 333
Fong, Larry 304
Ford, John 132, 297, 313
formal residue 94
Foucault, Michel 74
“The Foundation of Iranian Women” 47
“Framing Iran: A Coffee-Table Genealogy” 104
Frank, Anne 32, 36
“Free Experiments” 81
Friedl, Erika 33
Frodon, Jean-Michel 80
Fukuyama, Francis 188, 287
“Full Metal Jacket” (1987) 335
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America (2003) 35
Gabriel, Archangel 161
Gadamer, Hans-Georg 64, 77, 119
Ganji, Akbar 257
“The Gates” 117
Gate to the Sun (2000) 225
Geller, Pamella 26
Gellner, Ernest 222
Generations of Iranian women 47
German language 75
Ghaffari, Mohammad 133, 256
Ghorashi, Halleh 34
Gibbon, Edward 74
Gilanshah 41
Giscard d’Estaing, Valery 280
Gitai, Amos 332
Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art (2003) 168
Glass, Phillip 181, 190, 192
“globality” 148
“globalization” 107
Goethe 105, 133–34, 279
Golding, William 304
Golestan, Ebrahim 48, 113
Golestan, Kaveh 200, 202
Golshiri, Houshang 128, 184
Gorky, Maxim 53
Gramscian organic intellectual 143
Graner, Charles 194
“Great Lady of My Soul” 84
Great Wall of China 130
“Green Ashes” (1993) 136
Grenada 172
grotesque 15
Guardian 52
“Guernica” 199
gun and gaze 141–43, 167
Güney, Yilmaz 135
Guo-Qiang, Lai 149
Guppy, Shusha 37–38
Guttenbergian logic of print 100
Haamlet/Hamlet 53
Habiby, Emile 218
Haeri, Mohammad Reza 115
Hafez Abu Nu’aim al-Isfahani 49, 106, 133–34, 272
Haghighat, Nahid 271–75
Hajj Sayyah 46
Hakakian, Roya 35–36, 50–51, 57
Hamburger Kunsthalle (2001) 168
HamlehKhani 257
Hamsaram Jalal/My Husband Jalal 49
Hamza al-Janabi, AbeerQasim 258
Hanaway, William L. 38–39
Handel, George Frideric 303
Hanzala (Naji al-Ali) 223
Harf-e-Akhar “The Last Word” (2003) 183–84
“Harmonica” (1974) 319
Hassan, Nizar 221
Hatami-Kia, Ebrahim 128, 136, 336
Hatoum, Mona 23, 220
Haus der Kulturen der Welt 5, 100–101, 107, 112–14, 120
Head of Plastic Arts 121
“headache” 75, 264
headscarf ban 71
“Heaven & Earth” (1993) 335
Hebrew Bible 89, 222, 250, 261
Hedayat, Sadeq 125, 199–200, 213
Hedyeh Khatun 41
Heidegger, Martin 15, 18, 194, 216, 236, 247, 249–50, 321
Hell 90, 112, 154–55, 164, 245, 313
Hellyat al-Awlia 49
Hemingway, Ernest 312
“Hibernation” 84
Hijab 29
Hijab-e Islami. See Islamic veil
“Hill 24 Doesn’t Answer” (1955) 331
Hillmann, Michael 32
Himmelfarb, Gertrude 287
Hindu fundamentalist 131
Hitchens, Christopher 35, 117, 189, 257, 287, 289, 309
Hitler, Adolph 232
Hohlmeier, Monika 71
“Hole in the Moon” (1964) 331
Holland, Tom 302
Holocaust 16, 32, 57, 74, 225, 236, 247–51, 281
“The Holy Roman Empire” 74
Homo satiricus 266
horiyyat-e niswan/emancipation of women 46
Horn, Alan 294
Hossein ibn Ali 116, 257
Hostage Crisis 171–72
Hoy, William 305
The Hunger Artist 268
human body 87, 154, 157, 226
Huntington, Samuel 25, 119–20, 188–89, 287
Hussein, Saddam 9, 28, 55, 114–15, 172, 219, 295
“hybridity” 107, 149, 285–86
“I am Che Guevara” 84
“I Don’t Give a Damn” (1987) 332
I’temad al-Saltaneh 198
Ibn Battuta 48, 287
Ibn Hawqal 48, 287
“iconic index of modernity” 144
The Iconic series 254
“The Idrissis’ House” 1991–1992 86
Ignatieff, Michael 194
Ijtiyah (2003) 221
Iki 15
Iklimler (2006) 281
ilpensierodebole 222
Image of Imagination 198, 204, 206
Imberman, Shmuel 332
implosion 86
In the Eye of the Storm: Women in Post-Revolutionary Iran (1994) 33
infomercial gathering 104
inhabitations 77
inibitions 77
intellect 109
International art exhibitions 76
International Istanbul Biennale (1997) 167
Interstices 222
intuition 109
invisible body 157
Iraj Mirza 42
Iran 1, 5–8, 20, 28, 30–33, 36–38, 40, 42–43, 45–47, 49–56, 58–59, 62–63, 79, 83–86, 94, 99, 100–106, 108–20, 123, 125–31, 134–36, 142–43, 148, 154–55, 168, 171–81, 183, 185–86, 189–90, 198–202, 205, 207, 209–10, 218, 229, 231–33, 235, 253–37, 266, 271, 307–8, 312, 314–15, 319, 322, 328, 336–37
Iran Center of Columbia University 134
Iran Heritage Foundation 134
Iran-Iraq war 50, 53–55, 114–15, 172, 218, 254, 259, 336
Iran-Contra Affair (1983–1988) 170, 172
Iranian
actress 319
aesthetic modernity 209
airwaves 115
Americans 307–8
architecture 115
art 57–58, 75, 78, 85–87, 95, 99, 100–101, 104, 109, 112–15, 118–22, 126–33, 135, 137, 179
artist 75, 79, 113, 120, 122–24, 126, 132, 139, 179–80, 192, 197, 201, 229, 231, 235, 247, 256–57, 270, 311–12
bourgeoisie 44, 103, 181
cinema 78, 80, 95, 120, 122, 126, 129, 133–36, 151, 176, 179, 202, 328
cinematographer 184
cultural modernity 199–200, 209
culture 243, 307
filmmaker 99
fundamentalist 55
history 36, 39, 62, 83–85, 90, 118, 154, 169, 178, 200, 206, 246
immigrants 170
modernity 142, 198, 206–7, 210
monarch 170
novelist 36, 86, 126
nuclear program 307
photographer 197, 202, 212, 226
poet 235–7, 241
political culture 28
public intellectuals 179, 235, 328
revolution 171, 178, 258
scholars 118–19
society 174
television 171
universities 178, 201
visual modernity 201, 210, 212–13, 229
visual politics 232
women 4–5, 28–34, 36–38, 43–47, 50–52, 79, 81, 83–86, 91, 93, 121, 139–42, 172, 175–78, 185, 189
writer 183, 199
Iranian Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance 83, 120–21
“Iranian Plateau” 131
Iranian revolution of 1979 55, 85, 116, 178
Iranian Tudeh (Communist) Party 233
“The Iranian Women Party” 47
“Iraninity” 102
Islam 33, 55–56, 72, 75, 77, 95, 100, 106, 114, 132, 143, 148, 152, 154, 178, 188–92, 195–96, 254, 257–58, 260, 282, 304
“Islam and Modernity” 174, 176, 181, 188, 190, 195
Islam and the West 75–78, 92, 94, 132, 148, 174, 176, 189, 192, 196, 244, 265, 282
Islamic
architecture 186
art 3, 115, 130, 269
body 142–4
culture 147, 153–54, 176, 185
femininity 139
fundamentalism 9, 54, 71–72, 295–96
genealogy 121
ideology 151
law 41, 73, 243–44, 249
metaphysics 142, 210
Republic 28, 32–33, 36–37, 49, 52–54, 57, 60, 62–64, 71, 73–74, 81, 109, 114–21, 125, 130–31, 137, 151, 154, 172, 174, 178–81, 183–85, 190, 230–31, 233–34, 248–49, 251, 254, 258, 305, 307–8, 336
revolution 125, 168–69, 171–75, 177, 181, 192, 200, 206, 258, 307–8
societies 92, 174–75, 181, 185–87, 189–90
veil 141
Islamica 267
Islamism 34
Islamist code of conduct 53
Islamofascism 306
Israeli 216–19, 221, 225
Israeli postcolonialists 222
Israeli war films 331–37
Istanbul 174, 176, 178, 279–81, 287–88, 292
J’accuse 220
Jacir, Emily 23
“the Jackal” 137
Jahan-e Zanan/The World of Women 44
Jalal al-Din Rumi 162
Jalali, Bahman 197–213
“Japan of the Middle East” 109
Japanese art 15
Japanese Haiku poetry 132
Japanese interlocutor 15
Jasad A 155
Jasad B 155–56
Jauss, Hans Robert 169
Jenin, Jenin (2002) 221
“the Jew” 281
Jewish Holocaust 32
Jihadist 50–51, 55, 58, 63
Jism A 155–56
Jism B 156
Joad, Tom 225
Johannesburg Biennale (1997) 167, 174
Johnstad, Kurt 305
“Jom’eh” (2001) 135
Jones’, Sir William 105
Josteju I 315
Josteju II 315
Journal of American Oriental Society 273
Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran (2004) 35–36, 51, 57
Jyllands-Posten 257
kafiyyeh 224
Kafka, Frantz 199, 269
Kalantari, Parviz 128
Kanazawa Citizen’s Art Center (2001) 168
Kandiyoti, Deniz 36
Kant, Immanuel 15, 73, 75, 222, 226–27, 283–85, 288–89, 291
Kantian methodological mechanism 23
Kar, Mehrangiz 36, 71, 95, 177
Karamat (“miraculous”) literature 48
Karimi, Niki 179, 319
Kasi Miayad/Someone is Coming 65–66
Kasma’i, Shams 43
Kermani, Mirza Aqa Khan 200
Khab-e Zemestani 84
Khakdan, Vahed 113
Khak-e Khub/The Good Earth 53
Khamseh 211
khamushi 238
Khaneh-ye Idrissi-ha 86
Kho’i, Esmail 113, 229, 241–44, 246
Khomeini 33, 37, 45, 93, 170–72, 233, 308, 336
Khondji, Darius 123, 184
Khoshru, Abolqasem 121
Khosrojerdi, Hossein 114–15, 128
Khoury, Elias 225
Khusheh-ha-ye Khasham/Grapes of Wrath 53
Khwajah Nezam al-Molk 41
Kiarostami, Abbas 80, 122, 128–29, 130, 132, 134, 136, 167, 200, 202, 261, 290, 328
“Kilometer Zero” (2005) 135
Kingdom of Heaven 293–96, 298
Kipling, Rudyard 76
“Kippur” (2000) 332
The Kitchen 183
Knight, Lucy 122
Knopp, Hans-Georg 100–1, 120–21
Koller, Xavier 286
Koppel, Ted 170
Kracht, Christian 104
Kristol, Irving 287
Kristol, William 287
Kubrick, Stanley 335
Kubrick, Stanly 329
Kuki, Count Shuzo 15
Kuliyyat-e ChaharMaqalah 41
kulturindustrie 104–5
Kunsthalle Wien (2000) 167
“Künstler/Contemporary Positions of Iranian artists” 112
Kurdish cinema 135
Kurdish mountains 135
Kurds 135–36
Kurosawa, Akira 132, 297
Kuwait 219
Kwangju Biennale (2000) 167
La’nat-abad. See The Cursed Land
“the land of Spirituality” 264
Lahham, Rafik 23
Lahiji, Shahla 177
“The Last Word” (2003) 123
“Late Summer Blues” (1987) 332
Laysa Lahum Wujud (1974) 218
Le Monde 225, 280
Lebanon War (1982–2000) 332
“Lebanon” (2009) 331, 334
Leila Heller Gallery 253
Lenin, Vladimir 221
Lewis, Bernard 35, 37, 51, 132, 188, 282, 287
Lillian, Ethel 53
liminality 17–18, 125, 127, 222, 226, 253, 286
Lincoln Center 167
lingua franca 136
Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran (2005) 35
literary humanism 42
literary modernity 199–200
Living History (2003) 31
Ljubljana Museum of Modern Art (1997) 167, 174
localized 94
“Logic of the Birds” (2001) 183–84
logic of Verfremdung 101
“Lolita” 37, 116
London, Jack 53
Los Angeles 94, 116, 126, 172, 293, 296
“Lovely Stories of Persian Literature” 83
Lukács, George 63
Lycée Jean D’Arc 62
Ma’ayeb a-Rijal/The Vices of Men (1894) 43
MacDonald, Scott 171–74, 185–93
“Madman of God” (2002) 123
Madrasah system 41
Mafatih al-Ulum 40
Magic Flute (1791) 106
magical realism 80, 82–3
Mahdokht 79, 83, 86–87, 89–91, 123, 183–84
Maher, Bill 257
Mahfouz, Naguib 299
Mahmoody, Betty 37
Majidi, Majid 135–36
Makhmalbaf, Mohsen 122, 135–36, 328
Makhmalbaf, Samira 94, 99, 135–36, 168, 179
ManaqebKhani 257
“Manderlay” (2005) 326
Manhattan 10, 122, 171, 183, 189, 254, 311, 313–18, 321–22, 327
“Manhattan by Numbers” 122, 315–16, 321, 327
Mantiq al-Tayr 183, 264
Manuel II Palaiologos 258
Maoz, Samuel 331, 334
Maqamah 221
“Marathon” 122–23, 301, 303–4, 309, 314–18, 321, 323–24, 327
Maria Rilke, Rainer 199
Marley, Bob 123
“Marooned in Iraq” (2003) 135
Martinez, Rosa 148–50
Maryam Amid Mozayyan al-Saltaneh 44
Mathnavi 87–91, 243, 261–62
Matini, Jalal 130
Maus II: From Mauschwitz to the Catskills (1991) 57, 113
Maus: A Survivor’s Tale (1986) 57
Mawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi 41, 87, 89–91, 146, 161–62, 261–62, 264
Mecca 161
Mediterranean Sea 133
Mehrabad airport 54, 60, 104
Mehrjui, Daryush 80, 109–11, 136, 184, 244, 328
Melville, Herman 312
Memoir (1914) 43
“Men without Women” 79–80, 184
Merali, Shaheen 101–2
Mernissi, Fatima 36
Mesghali, Farshid 128
Meshkini, Marziyeh 94, 136, 179
Meskoob, Shahrokh 113
Mesqali, Farshid 57, 266
metaphysics 74, 87, 89–91, 124–27, 135, 142, 144, 147, 152, 157–58, 195, 204, 210, 222, 248–52, 284, 321, 328–29
Mi’raj 210
Mirza Mohammad Ali Mahallati 46
middle-class Iranians 30
the Middle East 100, 106, 130, 186
Mignolo, Walter 18
“migratory artists” 148
Milani, Farzaneh 36
Milani, Tahmineh 179
Mill, John Stuart 302
Miller, Frank 304
mimetic dissonance 224
Mir Salim, Seyyed Mustafa 120–21
Mir-Ehsan, Mir-Ahmad 109, 112
mirroring effect 193
Mirza Malkam Khan Nazemal-Dowleh 42
Mitchell, Kevin 221
Moaveni, Azadeh 35
“Moby Dick” (1851) 312
Modabber, Mohammad 254, 255
modernity (modernité) 109, 177
modus operandi 133
Mograbi, Avi 225
Moharram processions 116
Mohassess, Ardeshir 23, 57, 125–26, 229–52, 263–4, 266
MojahedineKhalq organizations 37
Mokhtari, Mohammad 179
Molla Hadi Sabzevari 201–2, 207
Monahan, William 293
monumental murals 116
Morocco 186–87
Morrier, James 106
Mughal Empire (1526–1857) 136
Muhammad ibn Munawwaral-Mihani 48
Muhammad, Osama 319
Mulla Nasr al-Din 111
Mulla Sadra Shirazi 48, 154
multiple personality 107
Mumbai 199, 287–88, 290, 292
Muqawamah 223
murals 116–17, 172
Murphy, George 122
Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran 105
Muslim Iranian women 29–30, 121
Muslim theologians 157–58
My Life (2004) 31
mystical treatises 212
mysticism 195, 265
Nabz 158, 162, 181
Naderi, Amir 10, 80, 122–23, 127–29, 132, 200, 202, 311–29
Naderpour, Nader 126
Nafisi, Azar 34–5, 49–52, 60, 80, 93, 112, 121, 134, 287, 316
Najmabadi, Afsaneh 36, 38
Nakba 220, 225
Namayeshdar Iran 257
nameless land 137
Naneh Delavar/Mother Courage 53
Nan-o-Sharab/Bread and Wine 53
Naqqal 161, 256
“Nargess” (1992) 179
Narrations 221–23
Naser Khosrow 48
Nasir al-Din Tusi 48
Natel Khanlari, Zahra (Kia) 83–84
national art 99, 122
nationalization 136
“native-informers” 263
“Natural Born Killers” (1994) 335
Negro carpenter 284
The Negroes of Africa 288
Nekam Achat Mishtey Eynay 225
Neo-Orientalism 264
“neo-realism” 134
Neshat, Shirin 4, 6–7, 22–23, 28, 33, 63, 72, 78–79, 82, 87, 89, 104, 120, 139–45, 149, 151, 153, 161, 167–96, 200, 202, 229, 263
art 169
articles 168
bordercrossings 145–47
aestheticization 151–52
celebrating 151–52, 158, 164
condemning 152, 160
binary ideas between tradition and modernity or Islam and West 152
global gaze 148–51
local look 151–53
invalid “identitarian politics” 151
provocative supplies 142
calligraphic poetry 81, 152, 173, 192, 271, 274
essays 168
history 169–96
Persian music 152
photographs 167–8
ritual veiling 151–2
stage multimedia 168
video 168
video installations 168
visual theorist of the body 153
Western Audience 151
“Neue PositioneniranishscherKünstler” (2004) 114
New York 7, 19–20, 22, 32, 34–5, 37, 39–40, 63, 65, 74, 76–79, 82–84, 86–87, 94, 101, 104–8, 110–12, 115, 117, 119–20, 122–27, 167, 171, 178, 181–83, 188, 230, 247, 263, 271, 280, 287, 290, 292–93, 311–30, 333–34
New York Times 34, 293, 333
Nezami Ganjavi 202, 211
Ng, David 320
Nicaragua 172
Nietzsche, Friedrich 106
9/11 US war 4–5, 30, 54–56, 74, 77, 94, 122, 129, 168, 182–84, 190, 194–95, 219, 225, 230, 234, 304–5, 318, 335
“Ninth Art” 56
Nodjoumi, Nicky 229–31, 265–76
Nodjoumi, Nikzad 57, 125, 132, 311, 319
Norris, Erin 122
nostalgia 89–90
Not Without My Daughter (1987) 37
Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime (1763) 15, 283–84
Occidental imagination 101–2
Occultation 257
“Ognissanti Madonna” 256
“The Old Man and the Sea” (1958) 312
Omar Khayyam 40, 133–34, 200, 261
On the Way to Language 15
Operation Eagle Claw 171
orality 40, 210, 291
Origin of German Tragic Drama (1925) 24
Oriental
art 109
films 102
Lolitas 35, 38
Occidentosis 76
signs 20
women 34, 142
Orientalism 1, 17, 35, 105, 118–19, 195, 281–82, 286
of conquest 281
of domination 105
of fear 105
of rivalry 105
“Osama” (2002) 135
Oslo Accord (1993) 219
Ossouli, Farah 128
Ost-Westliche Diwan 279
Ostad Khatun 41
Ottoman Empire (1300–918) 136, 281
Ovanessian, Arby 80
Owj 158–59, 180
Ozenfant, Amédée J. 126
Ozu, Yasujiro 133
Pahlavi 8, 37, 59, 62, 80, 131, 199–200, 234, 246, 271, 315
Avenue 62
historiography 4
monarchy 44, 109, 199–200, 231, 233, 246, 254, 271, 315, 328
prison 232
period 254, 266
Pahlavi, Farah 177
Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza Shah 44–6, 52, 54, 62, 93, 141, 199, 232
Palestinian 26, 117, 131, 215–27, 251, 256, 261, 297, 306, 319, 331, 334–37
Pardeh Khan, 257
Paris 19, 62–63, 72, 77, 84–85, 113, 121, 126, 130, 135, 170, 172, 178, 199, 263, 292, 315, 320
Park, Kyong 171
Parker, Alan 123
Parsa, Fakhr Afagh 44
Parsipour, Shahrnoush 36, 79–84, 86–87, 89–91, 93, 95, 126, 177, 183–84, 189–90
“Passage” (2001) 158, 163–64, 181, 192–93
Passagenwerk (1940) 24
patented theory of corpus 158
patriarchy 6, 45, 142–43
Paul, Sara 122–23
Payami, Babak 136
Pazira, Nelofer 136
Pearl Buck, Pearl 53
Peña, Richard 167, 315
“People of Gharg” (1989) 85
the periphery 112
“Permission to Narrate” 220
Persepolis: A Story of Childhood (2003) 28, 52–58, 60, 62–66, 113, 168, 267
Persia: Bridge of Turquoise (1975) 118
Persian 308–10
art 133, 273
fiction 81–3, 87, 91, 125
ghazals 87, 91, 162, 243
language 38, 66, 75, 83, 136
miniatures 132, 202, 211, 236, 272
poetry 7, 79, 89, 126, 133, 195, 200, 202, 211, 243, 245
prose 47, 81, 83–84, 121, 243
Salome 144
Persian Sufism 146
Philip Glass’ music 163
Phillip, John 174
Phillips, Jonathan 295
photography 139–44, 168, 181, 197–202, 205–6, 208–9, 212, 215, 226, 317–18
Phuc, Kim 202
Picasso, Pablo 199
piety and eroticism 7, 195
Pizan, Christine de 40
“Platoon” (1986) 335
Poland, David 296
Polanski, Roman 123
political
migrants 101–4
modernism 74
purposes 119
Politics and Poetics of Migration: Narratives of Iranian Women from the Diaspora (2004) 36
polyfocal vision 129
Pope Benedict XVI 258
Pope, Arthur 120
Theportrait of the artist at home 204
Portraits and Daily Life 206
“Possessed” 186–87. See also Fetneh
post-Islamic-Revolution 106
post-Tiananmen Square predicament 149
post-9/11 syndrome 77
“postcolonial” condition 222
Postcoloniality 223
Pouyandeh, Mohammad Jafar 179
Pourjavady, Nasrollah 118
Pressfield, Steven 304
Prophet Muhammad 161
“Pulp Fiction” (1994) 335
Pulse” 181, 193. See also Nabz
Punctum 215–18, 226
Qabus ibnVushmgir 41
Qabus-namah 41
Qajar 38, 199, 231
aristocracy 38, 199
army 44
disposition 126
dynasty 198–99, 231, 234, 246, 254
period 120
Qandriz Gallery 232
Qanun/Law (1890) 42
Qatl-ha-ye Zanjireh’I 179
Qazvin 169
Qobadi, Bahman 135, 137
Qollar Aqasi, Hossein 254
Qormeh Sabzi 308
quintessential body. See Jasad B
Qur’an 41, 154–55, 189, 210–12, 250, 257, 261, 279
condemnation 160–61
constitution 154
quotation 161
recitation 117, 160–62
rendititon 89
revelation 211, 261
verses 117, 239, 250
Qurrat al-Ayn, Tahereh 43, 93, 141–42, 254
Raf’at, Taqi 42
Rafi’ Khan Amin 42
Rahimieh, Nasrin 36
Rajavi, Maryam 177, 310
Raouf, Masoud 37
Rapfogel, Jared 323, 326
“Rapture” 120, 148, 158–61, 180, 185–86
Ravanipour, Moniru 85–86
Razi, Lycée 60
Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003) 34–36, 51, 60, 80, 316
Reagan era (1980–1988) 234
Reagan, Ronald 33, 171–72
“Recess” (1972) 293
The Recital of the Bird 212
The Recital of Hayy ibn Yaqzan 212
The Recital of Salaman and Absal 212
Reeves, Minou 29
Reform Movement 181
Reise der Hoffnung (“Journey of Hope” 1990) 286
“Remember the Ladies” (1776) 40
representation by implication 32, 114
“Requiem” (1978) 319
“Revolution” 198
Rezeptionsästhetik 169
Rial 120
Rieff, Philip 260
Rihla 48
Riley-Smith, Jonathan 295
Risalah al-Tayr 212
Rosenberg, Stuart 324
Rozeh Khani 257
Rubaiyat (1859) 106, 133
Rugoff, Ralph 148–50
Rumsfeld, Donald 258, 305
Rushdie, Salman 257, 287
Rushdipour, Atusa 62
Russian revolution of 1917 43, 47
Ruzi ba Jima’at Sufian 212
Sa’edi, Gholamhossein 49, 113, 130, 184
Sacred History 239
Safar 158, 153, 181, 192–93. See also Passage
Safavids (1502–1737) 136
Safawi, Nawwabeh 44
Saffron Sky: A Life Between Iran and America (2000) 32
Sahra-ye Mahshar. See apocalyptic desert
Shahab al-Din Yahya Suhrawardi 48, 212
Said, Edward 74, 105, 112, 118–19, 220, 223
Sajjil: A Century of Modern Art 23
Salah-Din Zarkub 41
Saleem, Hiner 135
Saljuqi, Malikshah 41
Salman Rushdie Affair (1989) 170
Salour, Maryam 128
Saltz, Jerry 22
Sanasarian, Eliz 33
Sangi Bar Guri/A Tombstone 49
sans judgment 123
Santana, Carlos 123
Sapere Aude 212
Saqqa-khaneh 257
sar-dard. See headache
Sassanid dynasty 39
Satan’s Stone (1991) 85
Satanic Verses (1988) 257
Satrapi, Marjane 27–29, 50–66, 113–14, 168
Savushun (1969) 84
Sayyad, Parviz 126–28, 130
Sayyah, Fatemeh 46–7
Sayyah, Hamid 47
Scheib, Ronnie 322
schizophrenia 111–12, 114, 334–35
School of Isfahan 154
Schorr, Renen 332
Scott, Ridley 293
Scott, Walter 295
“The Scouts” (1967) 331
“Search I” (1981) 315
“Search II” (1982) 315
“Secret Ballot” (2001) 136
The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist (1974) 218
Sedghi, Hamideh 36
To See and See Again: A Life in Iran and America (1999) 30–31, 33
Seh Maktub/Three Letters (1865) 42
Sein 236
Sekandar, Shazia 23
Self-Portraits 219–20
Semiosis 226
Sensation 270
Senses of Cinema 323
sensus communis 64–46, 77, 119
Sepehri, Sohrab 99, 126, 132, 145–46, 197, 236, 290
serial murders 179
Sevruguin, Antoin 212
Seyr-o Soluk 48
The Shadow under the Web 174, 176, 179–80, 193
Shahab al-Din Yahya Suhrawardi 48, 212
Shahid Sales, Sohrab 126
Shahnameh 117, 202, 211, 273
Shahrastani 328
Shahrivar, Shermine 95
Shakespeare 53
Shamayel-gardani 257
Shamlu, Ahmad 130, 235–46, 275
Sharivar, Shermine 72–73
Sharjah Biennial11 (SB11) 18–19
Shayegan, Daryush 109–12
Shaykh Farid al-Din Attar Nishapuri 48, 183
Shaykhi School of philosophy 155
Shenakht-nameh-ye Ardeshi-e Mohassess 241
Shi’ism 8–9, 22, 146, 253–61, 312
Shirchi, Israfil 130
Shoa 220
Shokoufeh/Blossom 44
“Shomahamchoasirid” 162
“silence of the sun” 239
Silone, Ignazio 53
Simmonds, Michael 312
“A Simple Incident” (1973) 126
Site Sante Fe building 148–51
Siyasat-namah 41
“slave women” 54
Smith, Anthony D. 222
Snyder, Zack 301
Societas 226
“Society for the Struggles of Iranian Sisters” 44
“Society of Sisters” 44
Sohofi, Seyyed Mohammad 121
soliloquy 158, 164
Sorkh-o-Siah/The Red and the Black 53
Soroush, Abdolkarim 257
soul 10, 40, 50, 52, 54, 66, 77–79, 84–85, 93–94, 111, 117, 121–23, 128, 134, 145–46, 152–58, 163
“Sound Barrier” (2005) 122–23, 311, 314–16, 321–24, 327
sous rature/under erasure 20
Spectrum International Prize 197
“Speechless” 81
Spiegelman, Art 57, 113
spiritual autobiography 48
Spivak, Gayatri 34, 52, 106, 108, 286
The Splendour of Iran (2001) 118
Sprengel Museum Hannover 197
Stamps 171
States (2002) 34
Statues of Buddha in Bamiyan 74
Steinbeck, John 53
Stendhal 53
“Still Life” (1974) 126
Stone, Oliver 335
Storefront for Art and Architecture 171, 180
The Story of the Daughters of Quchan: Gender and National Memory in Iranian History (1998) 36
“strategic essentialism” 108
Studium 215–18, 226
“Submission” (2004) 72, 257
sui generis 35, 59, 128, 195, 209, 211, 248, 327
Suleiman, Elia 220–21, 290, 319
Sullivan, Zohreh 33
Sultan Abdulhamid Khan I 281
Sultan Selim Khan III 281
Sunni Muslims 254
Surat Khani 257
Sweden 113, 179
Sydney (1996) 174
syntax and morphology 235
Syria 135
systematic rectification 63
“Ta’ziyeh” 133, 256, 259–61
Tabataba’i, Jazeh 128
Tadhkira al-Awlia 48
Taj al-Saltaneh 43
Tajikistan (“Silence” 1998) 135
taken outside (excapere) 230
Talebi, Shahla 37
Taleqani, Azam 177
Taliban 171
The Talisman 295
Tanavoli, Parviz 130
“Tangsir” (1973) 319
Tapiès Foundation 199, 201
Taraghi, Goli 84–85, 113
Tarantino, Quentin 335
Tariq ibn Ziyad 186
Tarkan Khatun 40
Taslimi, Sussan 113
Taste of Cherry (1997) 261
Tate Gallery of Modern Art (1998) 167
Tavoos 121
“Taxi Driver” (1976) 335
technological postmodernity 327
Tehran 9, 27–28, 34–37, 39, 41–43, 44–47, 51–53, 57–58, 60, 62, 77, 79–80, 83–84, 87, 89, 93–94, 102, 15, 108–9, 114, 116–17, 120–21, 123, 132, 137, 139, 140, 169–170, 172–73, 175, 232, 235, 253–54, 257, 271–72, 292, 314, 315–16, 320, 327–28
temporal designation 132
Terken Khatun 41
terrestrial body. See Jism B
“terrorism” 34, 36, 49, 54–56, 60–1, 63, 65, 74, 92, 101, 194, 234, 296, 308
Theater in Iran 257
theo-erotic disposition 195
therapeutic 188
They Have No Existence 218
“300” stroke 301–29
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883–1885) 106
“Tight Right White” (1994) 124
“A Time for Drunken Horses” (2001) 135, 137
Tohidi, Nayereh 36
Tokyo 9, 77, 292, 298, 318
“Tooba and the Meaning of Night” 81, 123, 173, 183, 187, 190, 192–93
Torture and Resistance in Iran 37
Totality and Infinity 250
Tower of Babel 150
Towfiq 232
Tradition (Sunnat) 109
Tradition and Modernity 109–10, 144
tradition vs. modernity 144
traditional believers 251
traditional Islamic Society 185–87, 189–90
transaesthetics 78, 112–13, 180, 183, 185, 196, 208, 230, 283, 289, 292
transcendental signified 152–53, 240, 248–49, 264
Transgressive 226
“Traveling” 85
“The Tree that Remembers” (2002) 37
“trickle-down” economics 172
trilogy 158, 161–63, 180–82, 326, 335
Trinity College 256
Trojan Horse 51
“Tropical Modernism” (2004) 137
Trotsky, Leon 221
“Tuba and the Meaning of Night” 81
Tuba va Ma’na-ye Shab 81
Tudeh Party 47
“Turbulent” 158–59, 161
Turkey 9, 20, 47, 72, 74, 135–36, 186, 188–89, 279–81
“the Turks” 281
“Turtles can Fly” (2004) 135
Twin Towers of New York 74
“2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968) 329
Unheimlich art 94
Unheimlich/Uncanny 94, 259
United States 4–5, 8, 20, 26, 30, 32–34, 36, 38, 49, 63, 79, 81, 92, 102, 116, 119, 123, 125–27, 129, 142, 170–72, 182–83, 189–90, 194, 217–19, 229, 231, 233–34, 236, 246–47, 266, 281, 285, 293–94, 304–5, 307–8, 310, 312, 315, 317–18, 320–21, 326, 334–36
global (war on) terrorism 34, 36, 49, 55
Hostage Crisis (1979–1980) 53, 93, 170–71, 190, 307, 309
imperialism 246
media 171
soldiers 171
Universal Intellect 89
University of California 171
University of Regensburg 258
Urs fi al-Jalil (1987) 217
“US Empire” 185, 189, 305–6, 309
“usulgara” 55
Ut, Nick 202–3
Uzak (“Distant”) 279–81, 287
vagabond 50, 54
Valencia Biennial (2001) 168
van Gogh, Theo 72–73, 169, 257, 325
van Jole, Francisco 73
Varley, Lynn 304
Vaziri, Qamar al-Moluk 177
veil 29, 61, 71–72, 75, 93, 139–43, 152, 172, 175, 178, 185–86, 192, 194, 254, 267, 273
Veiled Woman with Pearls 212
veiling 29, 38, 43–46, 60, 71–74, 93, 139–40, 145, 151–52, 168, 174–76, 182
Venice (1995) 174
Venice Biennale (1999) 167
Verfremdung 6, 101, 105–6, 109, 112, 114, 304
Verfremdungseffekt (or V-effekt) 100, 208, 259–60
“vernacular” 149
Vienna 50, 53, 56–7, 281
Vietnam Syndrome 171, 202, 234, 335
violence and sensuality 141
visionary recitals 212
visual and performing arts 128
visual intelligence 209
visual lyricism 30, 80, 82–83, 86–87, 89, 91, 95, 191, 193
visual modernity 198–201
von Trier, Lars 123, 326
“voodoo economics” 172
Voynich’sKharmagas/Gadfly 53
Wahdat al-Wujud 87
The Wall Street Journal 52
Walter Reade theatre 107, 167
“Waltz with Bashir” (2008) 331, 333
War and Revolution 206
“War on Terror” 79, 194, 282
Warriors 293–300
“Was is Aufklärung” 73
“Water, Wind, Dust” (1988) 315, 324
Waxman, Sharon 293
Ways to Survive, Battles to Win: Iranian Women Exiles in the Netherlands and the United (2002) 34
Wedding in Galilee 217
Weltanschauung 57
“the West” 50, 56, 75, 131, 175–6, 185, 187–91, 247, 264, 282, 288, 291, 301, 305–6, 320
Western art 131
“Western Civilization” 34, 119, 124
Westöstliche Divan 133
West-Ostlicher Diwan (1819) 106
“Westoxication” 110
“What is the Enlightenment” (1784) 288
Whitney Museum of American Art (2000) 168
Wilson, Charlie 123
“With Kanizu” (1988) 85
Wohngemeinschfat (communal apartment) 54
Wojda, John 122
Wolf-and-Sheep 253
Wolfowitz, Paul 34–36, 38, 51, 60
Wollstonecraft, Mary 40
“Women and Peace” 47
Women of Allah (1997) 4, 28–30, 72, 167, 174, 176, 180, 185
Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity (2005) 36
Women without Men 79, 80–81, 83, 86–87, 90–91, 168, 187
Women’s Autobiographies in Contemporary Iran (1990) 38
The Women’s Rights Movement in Iran: Mutiny, Appeasement, and Repression from 1900 to Khomeini (1982) 33
“The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” 143
world cinema 277–337
World War II (1939–1944) 231
Wye River Memorandum (1998) 219
Xerxes Palace 303
“Ya Qamar-e Bani Hashem” 146
YadunIlahi (2002) 224
Yaghmaian, Behzad 286
Yektai, Manoucher 126
Yektapanah, Hasan 135–36
“Yol” (1983) 135
Yushij, Nima 200
Yusuf E’tesamal-Molk 45–46
Zaban-e Zanan/Women’s Voice 44
Zandi, Maryam 121, 130, 132–33
Zarin 79
Zaya, Octavio 174–75
Zemzemeh 181–82, 187, 189. See also Soliloquy
Zenderoudi, Charles-Hossein 23, 113, 130
Zherminaal/Germinal 53
Ziapour, Jalil 232
Zionism 219, 249, 251, 281, 331, 337
Zohar, Uri 331
Zola, Emile 53
Zolghadr, Tirdad 104, 106, 137
Zoroaster 105–6