Until the turn of the 20th century, prisons as we know them today were virtually non-existent in Qajar Persia. Even by the mid-1920s, there were only a few hundred prisoners held by the newly centralizing Iranian government. Today, in the Islamic Republic of Iran, there are at least a quarter of a million detainees. This talk traces the remarkable transformation of Iran from a decentralized empire with few incarcerated persons in the early 20th century into a modern state with a vast prison network with hundreds of thousands of prisoners today. How and why did this exponential transformation happen? How did Iranians come to understand their increasingly policed and punished social worlds? What does Iran’s penal history tell us about the expansion of prisons across the world? This talk traces the making of the modern carceral state in Iran by focusing on what I call the public life of the modern prison. In analyzing the multilingual and multi-genre archive of prisons in Iran, this tal
Once again, Turkey is the odd one out in the NATO alliance. The country s Islamist strongman, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is trying to turn what appears to be the most strategic move in NATO s history into carpet-trading at Istanbul s Grand Bazaar.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is trying to turn what appears to be the most strategic move in NATO s history into carpet-trading at Istanbul s Grand Bazaar. "The Russian-Kurdish nexus has been a recurring feature of Middle Eastern geopolitics for more
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