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Hojaji's Gaze: Civilizational Aspirations and the Reclamation of Space in Contemporary Iran

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 May 2020

Shirin Saeidi*
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA
*
Corresponding author. E-mail: saeidi@uark.edu

Abstract

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Copyright © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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2 Ibid.

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17 Ibid.

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