Praised by leading academics in the field as "extraordinary," "a brilliant analysis," "fresh, provocative and iconoclastic," Iran: A People Interrupted has distinguished itself as a major work that has single-handedly effected a revolution in the field of Iranian studies.
In this provocative and unprecedented book, available for the first time in an affordable paperback edition, Hamid Dabashi the internationally renowned cultural critic and scholar of Iranian history and Islamic culture traces the story of Iran over the past two centuries with unparalleled analysis of the key...

A visual survey of the public myths and collective symbols used in the making of the Islamic Revolution in Iran and the subsequent war with Iraq.