Identities in Crisis in Iran

Ronen A. Cohen is assistant professor and chair of the Department of Middle Eastern Studies and Political Science at Ariel University in Israel. He is author of The Upheavals in the Middle East: The Theory and Practice of a Revolution (Lexington Books, 2014) and The Hojjatiyeh Society in Iran: Ideology and Practice from the 1950s to the Present.

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 Mahmūd Ahmadi-nezhād, 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