Vol. 14.1, March 1998

TABLE OF CONTENT

From the Editor’s Desk

Research Forum

Yahya R. Kamalipour, Media, Image, Reality and the Middle East

Hammed Shahidian, Political Activism, Feminism, and Exile: Women’s Participation in the Iranian Left

Valentine M. Moghadam, The Women’ movement in The Middle East and North Africa: Responding to Restructuring and Fundamentalism

Policy Notes

Saeed Barzin, Strategy for a Constitutional Reformer

Kamran Dadkhah and Hamid Zangeneh, International Economic Sanctions Are Not Zero-Sum Games: There Are Only Losers

Ali R. Abootalebi, Elections Matter

Iranians Abroad

Maboud Ansari, An Open letter to the President of the United States And the President’s Response

Siamak Namazi, Some Observations on the Iranian Government’s Policies Towards Expatriates

Book Reviews

Ghassan Salame, ed., Democracy Without Democrats?  The Renewal of Politics in the Muslim World

Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, Recasting Persian Poetry: Scenarios of Poetic Modernity in Iran

Dale F. Eickelman and James Piscatori, Muslim Politics Haggay Ram, Myth and Mobilization in Revolutionary Iran:  The Use Of the Friday Sermon

Bahman Baktiari, Parliamentary Politics in Revolutionary Iran: The Institutionalization of Factional Politics

Hassan Kamshad, Modern Persian Prose Literature Abdel Salam Sidahmed and Anoushiravan Ehteshami, eds., Islamic Fundamentalism

Franklin Lewis and Farzin Yazdanfar, trans. And eds., In a Voice of Their Own: A Collection of Stories by Iranian Women Written since the Revolution of 1979

David McDowall, A Modern History of the Kurds Parviz Daneshvar, Revolution in Iran Notes and Queries