Identities in crisis in Iran

The unending battle between the Persian and Islamic identities of Iran / Harold Rhode -- National identity or political legitimacy : the reconstruction of the city of Bam / Ladan Zarabadi -- The Islamic identity project : between coercion and voluntarism / Ofira Seliktar -- Iran's national identity and the nuclear program : a rational choice theory analysis / Farhad Rezaei -- Overcoming the "isms" : Iranian's role in the modern world, from the perspective of Mahmod Ahmadi-nezhad / Moshe-hay S. Hagigat -- The identity designers of the self in sexuality, beauty, and plastic surgery in Iran / Ronen A. Cohen -- Iranians against the "other" : Iranian identity in the social media era / Raz Zimmt..

Includes notes (at the end of each chapter) & bibliographical references (p. 159-171) and index..