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Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi

Associate Professor of History

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Areas of Specialization

Global History

Publications

Books

  • Islam and Dissent in Postrevolutionary Iran. London, New York: I.B.Tauris, 2008.

Book Contributions

  • "“’When Life Will No Longer Barter Itself:’ In Defense of Foucault on the Iranina Revolution,” ." A Foucault for the 21st Century: Governmentality, Biopolitics and Discipline in the New Millennium. Ed. Sam Binkley. New Castle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009.
  • "Iran as a Solution Rather than a Problem: The Politics of Reform." Social Change and Dissent in Iran. Washington, DC: CNA, 2003.
  • "Between the Shah and the Imam, the Students of the Left in Iran." Student Protest. New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 1998.

Journal Articles

  • Ghamari-Tabrizi, Behrooz. "Introduction: The Iranian Revolution Turns 30." Radical History Review Fall.105 (2009):
  • "Mourning, Memory and Memorializing: The Iranian Veterans of Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988)." Radical History Review Fall.105 (2009):
  • "Michael Burawoy and the Construction of Public Sociology." Critical Sociology 31.3 (2005):
  • "Contentious Public Religion: Two Conceptions of Islam in Revolutionary Iran." International Sociology 19.4 (2004):
  • "Loving America and Longing for Home: Isma`il al-Faruqi and the Emergence of Muslim Diaspora in the United States." International Migration 42.2 (2004):
  • "Islam and High-Technology: Global Communications and Cultural Re-Inventions." Arab World 1.1 (2001):
  • "Islam, Globalization, and Human Rights: The Case of Iran." Political and Legal Anthropology Review 23.1 (2001):
  • "Postmodernity and the Emergence of Islamist Movements." International Review of Social History 42.1 (1997):
  • "Is Islamic Science Possible?." Social Epistemology Fall.2-3 (1996):

Website Articles

  • "“Whose Justice Does Saddam’s Trial Serve?” ." Counterpunch. 22 Oct. 2005.
  • "“Can Obama Transcend the Iron Cage of the White House?” ." Counterpunch. 19 Nov. 2008.
  • "“Disturbing Opportunism: Change in Iran ought to flourish without external threats of violence and invasion” ." iranian.com. 23 May 2003.
  • "“What’s the Matter with Iran? How the Reformists Lost the Presidency” ." iranian.com. 28 Jun. 2005.
  • "“Thomas Friedman’s Muslim Problem” ." Counterpunch. 10 Jul. 2005.
  • "“When a Cartoon Is Not a Cartoon: What Is Funny about a Demonized Prophet and His Terrorist Followers?” ." iranian.com. 4 Feb. 2006.
  • "“The World is not Florida and the US Isn’t Its Supreme Leader” ." Counterpunch. 18 Dec. 2007.
  • "“The Donkey and the Date: On the Iranian Municipal Elections” ." Counterpunch. 10 Dec. 2006.
  • "“Lost Muslim Voices of Dissent” ." Counterpunch. 6 Dec. 2004.
  • "“Playing Politics with Nukes, Is the U.S. on a Collision Course with Iran?” ." Commondreams. 30 Aug. 2004.
  • "Six Simple Proposals to Solve the Iranian Nuclear ‘Crisis’” ." Counterpunch (print edition). 20 Apr. 2006.

Encyclopedia Entries

  • "Mojtahed-Shabestari, Mohammad." Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World. Macmillan Reference, 2004.
  • "Abdolkarim Soroush." Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World. Macmillan Reference, 2004.
  • "Mortaza Motahhari." Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World. MacMillan, 2004.
  • "Ali Shari'ati." Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World. MacMillan Reference, 2004.

Reviews

  • Rev. of Berna Turam, Between Islam and the State: The Politics of EngagementContemporary Sociology 37.1 (2008):
  • Rev. of States, Ideologies, and Social Revolutions, by Misagh ParsaSocial Forces 81.2 (2002):
  • Rev. of Social Change in Iran, by Behzad Yaghmaian Middle East Journal 56.4 (2002):
  • Rev. of An Islamic Utopian: Political Biography of Ali Shari’ati, by Ali RahnemaCritique Spring.16 (2001):