Vol. 13.1 March 1997

TABLE OF CONTENT

From The Editor’s Desk

• Hooshang Amirahmadi, International Education from Universalism to Globalism.

Research Forum

• Massoud Karshenas, Structural Adjustment, Competitiveness, and women’s employment in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

• Val Moghadam, In or Out? Iranian Women and the New Global Economy

• Mohamad Tavakoli, Women of the West Imagined: Persian Occidentalism, Euro-Eroticism, and Modernity

Policy Notes

• Ali Massoud Ansari, Taming the Lion – Approaches to the Islamic Republic of Iran

• Hossein Aryan, Aggradizement of Iran’s Naval Threat In the Persian Gulf

Iranians Abroad

• Ali Akbar Mahdi, Determinants of Adaptation for Second Generation Iranians

• Sussan Tahmasebi, Iranian Americans: A political Survey

Book Reviews

• Parvin Paidar. Women and the Political Process in Iran

• Abbas Milani, Tales of Two Cities: A Persian Memoir

• Cosroe Chaqueri, The Soviet Socialist Republic of Iran, 1920- 1921: Birth of the Trauma

• Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, editor, Children in the Muslim Middle East

• Ellis Jay Goldberg, Editor, The social history of Labor In the Middle East

• Mahnaz Afkhami, editor.  Faith and Freedom:  Women’s Human Rights in the Muslim World

• Shireen Hunter, Central Asia Since IndependenceHoma Omid, Islam and the Post Revolutionary State in Iran

• Iraj Pezeshkzad, My Uncle Napoleon, translated from the Persian by Dick Davis