Identities in Crisis in Iran

Acknowledgments
Introduction, Ronen A. Cohen
Section One: Historical and Current Perspectives on Persian, Islamic, and Contested Religious Identities
Chapter One: The Unending Battle between the Persian and Islamic Identities of Iran, Harold Rhode
Chapter Two: National Identity or Political Legitimacy: The Reconstruction of the City of Bam, Ladan Zarabadi
Section Two: An Islamic-National Identity and Nuclear Program
Chapter Three: The Islamic Identity Project: Between Coercion and Voluntarism, Ofira Seliktar
Chapter Four: Iran's National Identity and the Nuclear Program: A Rational Choice Theory Analysis, Farhad Rezaei
Chapter Five: Overcoming "the -isms": Iranian's Role in the Modern World, from the Perspective of Mahmud Ahmadi-nezhad, Moshe-hay S. Hagigat
Section Three: Sexuality, Beauty, and Social Networking-Between the Private, Self, and the Public Sphere
Chapter Six: The Identity Designers of the Self in Sexuality, Beauty, and Plastic Surgery in Iran, Ronen A. Cohen
Chapter Seven: Iranians against the "Other": Iranian Identity in the Social Media Era, Raz Zimmt
Conclusions
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index