Sussan Siavoshi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1213433 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sussan Siavoshi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sussan |
| FAMILY NAME | Siavoshi |
| SIGNATURE | SIAVOSHI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trinity University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Migration and foreign policies: The case of Iran
This article examines the interplay of Iran’s migration and foreign policies since the 1979 revolution. It also undertakes to relate the case of Iran to the Global South literature with its heavy emphasis on migration diplomacy. Despite its importance as a major migrant-receiving country, Iran has remained unattended in such studies. As the present article argues, the Islamic Republic, due to its revolutionary dynamic and peculiar international s…
Afghans in Iran: The state and the working of immigration policies
Since its founding in 1979, the Islamic Republic has received one of the largest Afghan refugee/migrant populations of any country. The Iranian state first pursued an open-door immigration policy, but after a decade, it changed its course and turned to restriction, repatriation and expulsion. To explain Iran’s migration policies and their changes overtime, this study brings together a search for answers to two interrelated questions: first, how a…
Liberal Nationalism in Iran: The Failure of a Movement
Montazeri: The Life and Thought of Iran's Revolutionary Ayatollah
By the time of his death in 2009, the Grand Ayatollah Montazeri was lauded as the spiritual leader of the Green movement in Iran. Since the 1960s, when he supported Ayatollah Khomeini's opposition to the Shah, Montazeri's life reflected the crucial political shifts within Iran. In this book, Sussan Siavoshi presents the historical context as well as Montazeri's own political and intellectual journey. Siavoshi highlights how Montazeri, originally …
Fingers: Personal or political
For the first two decades of the post-revolutionary period, Iranian filmmakers predominantly portrayed women as either selfless/heroic characters, willing to sacrifice themselves for the greater good of a community, or sinister and selfish creatures who not only lacked any redeeming value, but were a danger to the well-being of the community. Mania Akbari’s film, 20 Fingers, made during a transitional period of post-revolutionary Iran, was a shar…
Human Rights and the Dissident Grand Ayatullah Hussain Ali Montazeri
I call you father because I learned from you how to defend the oppressed without using violence against the oppressor. I learned from you that being silent means helping the oppressor... . You are the father of Human Rights in Iran and I and million others are your children and disciples.1 With these words Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 Noble Peace Prize winner, mourned the passing of Hussain Ali Montazeri (1922–2009), a Shia grand ayatullah, and a oneti…
Rethinking Iranian Nationalism and Modernity
While recent books have explored Arab and Turkish nationalism, the nuances of Iran have received scant book-length study - until now. Capturing the significant changes in approach that have shaped this specialization, Rethinking Iranian Nationalism and Modernity shares innovative research and charts new areas of analysis from an array of scholars in the field. Delving into a wide range of theoretical and conceptual perspectives, the essays - all …
Āyatullah Misbāh Yazd: Politics, Knowledge, and the Good Life
Islamism and Modernism: The Changing Discourse in Iran * By Farhang Rajaee
The triumph of the Islamic Revolution and the subsequent establishment of the Islamic Republic with its peculiar structures and institutions puzzled observers and scholars of Iran. For those who believed the future course of history would be progressively secular, the survival of a regime that seemed to proceed in the opposite direction looked improbable. For others, the grim prediction about the fate of the Islamic Republic was based on the conc…
Ayatollah Khomeini and the Contemporary Debate on Freedom
The evolving and transitional Iranian polity is experiencing an intense and soul searching debate on a variety of philosophical and ideological matters. At the heart of the debate are two competing notions of freedom that highlight the tension between individual rights on the one hand, and, the power of the community/state on the other. Due to the obvious political implications of such issues the participants in the debate consist of not only int…
Authoritarian or Democratic: The Uncertain Future of Iran
The February 18, 2000 Parliamentary Elections in Iran Resulted in a clear victory for the groups associated with President Khatami's reform programs. The electorate was allowed to reject the forces of authoritarianism and conservatism through a free election, and the media and the experts considered this event to have historic significance. It seemed that the result of the elections convinced more and more people that democratic transition is pos…
Cultural Policies and the Islamic Republic: Cinema and Book Publication
The evolution of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the dynamics of the relationship between the Iranian state and society can be explored by examining the postrevolutionary regime's policies toward intellectuals, particularly as expressed in its regulation of cinema and book publication. This relationship—at least in the period from the early 1980s to the early 1990s—was complex and nuanced. Factionalism within the regime provided an opportunity f…
Factionalism and Iranian Politics: The Post-Khomeini Experience
The elections to the fourth session of the Iranian parliament (Majlis) were generally considered as the beginning of the end of factional politics in Iran. The typical journalistic analysis of Iranian politics, emphasizing the existence of two “moderate” and “radical” factions on the Iranian political scene, concluded that the “moderate” forces, led by President Hashemi Rafsanjani, had inflicted a decisive blow on the “radical” faction and neutra…
Liberal Nationalism in Iran: The Failure of a Movement
Cultural Policies and the Islamic Republic: Cinema and Book Publication
The evolution of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the dynamics of the relationship between the Iranian state and society can be explored by examining the postrevolutionary regime's policies toward intellectuals, particularly as expressed in its regulation of cinema and book publication. This relationship—at least in the period from the early 1980s to the early 1990s—was complex and nuanced. Factionalism within the regime provided an opportunity f…
Factionalism and Iranian Politics: The Post-Khomeini Experience
The elections to the fourth session of the Iranian parliament (Majlis) were generally considered as the beginning of the end of factional politics in Iran. The typical journalistic analysis of Iranian politics, emphasizing the existence of two “moderate” and “radical” factions on the Iranian political scene, concluded that the “moderate” forces, led by President Hashemi Rafsanjani, had inflicted a decisive blow on the “radical” faction and neutra…
Afghans in Iran: The state and the working of immigration policies
Since its founding in 1979, the Islamic Republic has received one of the largest Afghan refugee/migrant populations of any country. The Iranian state first pursued an open-door immigration policy, but after a decade, it changed its course and turned to restriction, repatriation and expulsion. To explain Iran’s migration policies and their changes overtime, this study brings together a search for answers to two interrelated questions: first, how a…
Āyatullah Misbāh Yazd: Politics, Knowledge, and the Good Life
Human Rights and the Dissident Grand Ayatullah Hussain Ali Montazeri
I call you father because I learned from you how to defend the oppressed without using violence against the oppressor. I learned from you that being silent means helping the oppressor... . You are the father of Human Rights in Iran and I and million others are your children and disciples.1 With these words Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 Noble Peace Prize winner, mourned the passing of Hussain Ali Montazeri (1922–2009), a Shia grand ayatullah, and a oneti…
Ayatollah Khomeini and the Contemporary Debate on Freedom
The evolving and transitional Iranian polity is experiencing an intense and soul searching debate on a variety of philosophical and ideological matters. At the heart of the debate are two competing notions of freedom that highlight the tension between individual rights on the one hand, and, the power of the community/state on the other. Due to the obvious political implications of such issues the participants in the debate consist of not only int…
Authoritarian or Democratic: The Uncertain Future of Iran
The February 18, 2000 Parliamentary Elections in Iran Resulted in a clear victory for the groups associated with President Khatami's reform programs. The electorate was allowed to reject the forces of authoritarianism and conservatism through a free election, and the media and the experts considered this event to have historic significance. It seemed that the result of the elections convinced more and more people that democratic transition is pos…
Liberal Nationalism in Iran: The Failure of a Movement
Factionalism and Iranian Politics: The Post-Khomeini Experience
The elections to the fourth session of the Iranian parliament (Majlis) were generally considered as the beginning of the end of factional politics in Iran. The typical journalistic analysis of Iranian politics, emphasizing the existence of two “moderate” and “radical” factions on the Iranian political scene, concluded that the “moderate” forces, led by President Hashemi Rafsanjani, had inflicted a decisive blow on the “radical” faction and neutra…
Cultural Policies and the Islamic Republic: Cinema and Book Publication
The evolution of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the dynamics of the relationship between the Iranian state and society can be explored by examining the postrevolutionary regime's policies toward intellectuals, particularly as expressed in its regulation of cinema and book publication. This relationship—at least in the period from the early 1980s to the early 1990s—was complex and nuanced. Factionalism within the regime provided an opportunity f…
Authoritarian or Democratic: The Uncertain Future of Iran
The February 18, 2000 Parliamentary Elections in Iran Resulted in a clear victory for the groups associated with President Khatami's reform programs. The electorate was allowed to reject the forces of authoritarianism and conservatism through a free election, and the media and the experts considered this event to have historic significance. It seemed that the result of the elections convinced more and more people that democratic transition is pos…
Ayatollah Khomeini and the Contemporary Debate on Freedom
The evolving and transitional Iranian polity is experiencing an intense and soul searching debate on a variety of philosophical and ideological matters. At the heart of the debate are two competing notions of freedom that highlight the tension between individual rights on the one hand, and, the power of the community/state on the other. Due to the obvious political implications of such issues the participants in the debate consist of not only int…
Islamism and Modernism: The Changing Discourse in Iran * By Farhang Rajaee
The triumph of the Islamic Revolution and the subsequent establishment of the Islamic Republic with its peculiar structures and institutions puzzled observers and scholars of Iran. For those who believed the future course of history would be progressively secular, the survival of a regime that seemed to proceed in the opposite direction looked improbable. For others, the grim prediction about the fate of the Islamic Republic was based on the conc…
Āyatullah Misbāh Yazd: Politics, Knowledge, and the Good Life
Rethinking Iranian Nationalism and Modernity
While recent books have explored Arab and Turkish nationalism, the nuances of Iran have received scant book-length study - until now. Capturing the significant changes in approach that have shaped this specialization, Rethinking Iranian Nationalism and Modernity shares innovative research and charts new areas of analysis from an array of scholars in the field. Delving into a wide range of theoretical and conceptual perspectives, the essays - all …
Fingers: Personal or political
For the first two decades of the post-revolutionary period, Iranian filmmakers predominantly portrayed women as either selfless/heroic characters, willing to sacrifice themselves for the greater good of a community, or sinister and selfish creatures who not only lacked any redeeming value, but were a danger to the well-being of the community. Mania Akbari’s film, 20 Fingers, made during a transitional period of post-revolutionary Iran, was a shar…
Human Rights and the Dissident Grand Ayatullah Hussain Ali Montazeri
I call you father because I learned from you how to defend the oppressed without using violence against the oppressor. I learned from you that being silent means helping the oppressor... . You are the father of Human Rights in Iran and I and million others are your children and disciples.1 With these words Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 Noble Peace Prize winner, mourned the passing of Hussain Ali Montazeri (1922–2009), a Shia grand ayatullah, and a oneti…
Montazeri: The Life and Thought of Iran's Revolutionary Ayatollah
By the time of his death in 2009, the Grand Ayatollah Montazeri was lauded as the spiritual leader of the Green movement in Iran. Since the 1960s, when he supported Ayatollah Khomeini's opposition to the Shah, Montazeri's life reflected the crucial political shifts within Iran. In this book, Sussan Siavoshi presents the historical context as well as Montazeri's own political and intellectual journey. Siavoshi highlights how Montazeri, originally …
Liberal Nationalism in Iran: The Failure of a Movement
Afghans in Iran: The state and the working of immigration policies
Since its founding in 1979, the Islamic Republic has received one of the largest Afghan refugee/migrant populations of any country. The Iranian state first pursued an open-door immigration policy, but after a decade, it changed its course and turned to restriction, repatriation and expulsion. To explain Iran’s migration policies and their changes overtime, this study brings together a search for answers to two interrelated questions: first, how a…
Migration and foreign policies: The case of Iran
This article examines the interplay of Iran’s migration and foreign policies since the 1979 revolution. It also undertakes to relate the case of Iran to the Global South literature with its heavy emphasis on migration diplomacy. Despite its importance as a major migrant-receiving country, Iran has remained unattended in such studies. As the present article argues, the Islamic Republic, due to its revolutionary dynamic and peculiar international s…
Political science (13 works) · Islamic Studies and History (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (8 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (5 works) · History (4 works)