Overviews. Iranian culture and South Asia, 1500-1900 / Juan R.I. Cole -- Beyond translation : interactions between English and Persian poetry / Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak -- Turk, Persian, and Arab : changing relationships between tribes and state in Iran and along its frontiers / Thomas J. Barfield -- The Safavid, Qajar, and Pahlavi Periods. The early Safavids and their cultural interactions with surrounding states / Abolala Soudavar -- Suspicion, fear, and admiration : pre-nineteenth-century Iranian views of the English and the Russians / Rudi Matthee -- The quest for the secret of strength in Iranian nineteenth-century travel literature : rethinking tradition in the Safarnameh / Monica M. Ringer -- Cultures of Iranianness : the evolving polemic of Iranian nationalism / Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet -- Foreign education, the women's press, and the discourse of scientific domesticity in early-twentieth-century Iran / Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi -- Culture in the Islamic republic in relation to the world. International connections of the Iranian women's movement / Nayereh Tohidi -- The presentation of the "self" and the "other" in postrevolutionary Iranian school textbooks / Golnar Mehran -- Cinematic exchange relations : Iran and the West / Hamid Naficy -- Political-cultural relations with the Muslim world. The failed pan-Islamic program of the Islamic republic : views of the liberal reformers of the religious "semi-opposition" / Wilfried Buchta -- Revolutionary Iran and Egypt : exporting inspirations and anxieties / Asef Bayat and Bahman Baktiari -- The Iranian revolution and changes in Islamism in Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan / Vali Nasr -- The politics of Iran's international relations. Iran's foreign policy : a revolution in transition / Gary Sick
