Vol. 15.1, April 1999

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Articles:

Ahmad Karimi-Hakak“Exile and Imagination: A Study of poetic Responses to Exile”

 

M. Taghavi and A. G. Nakhjavani, “Monetary Approach to Foreign Exchange Rate: (Rial – Dollar)”

Kamran M. Dadkhah,  “Myths and Facts in Iranian Histography”

 

Research Forum:

Nayereh Tohidi, Women and Rights in the Muslim Republics Of the former Soviet Union.

Kazem Alardari, “Who Holds the Power in Iran? Transition from Populism to Clientelism to Pluralism”

 

Policy Notes:

            Christopher Rundle, "The United Kingdom and Iran: A Troubled Relationship”

Book Reviews:

Valentine M. Moghadam, Women, Work, and Economic Reform in the Middle East and North Africa

Robert Olson, The Kurdish Question and Turkish-Iranian Relations,

From World War I to 1998

Desmond Harney, The Priest and the King: An Eyewitness of the Iranian

Revolution

Mary Ann Heiss, Empire and Nationhood: The United States, Great Britain,

And Iranian Oil, 1950-1954

Joen Beinin and Joe Stork, Eds. Political Islam: A Reader

Mohammad Khatami, Hope and Challenge: The Iranian President Speaks,

Institute of Global Cultural Studies

J.T.P. De Bruijn, Persian Sufi Poetry: An Introduction to the Mystical Use

Of Classical Poems

Richard N. Frye, The heritage of Central Asia: From Antiquity to the Turkish Expansion

Daniel Pipes, The Hidden Hand: Middle Eastern Fears of Conspiracy