Politics and Culture in Contemporary Iran: Challenging the Status Quo - Softcover

Despite the relative calm apparent in Iran today, there is unmistakable evidence of political, social, and cultural ferment stirring beneath the surface. The authors of Politics and Culture in Contemporary Iran-a unique group of scholars, activists, and artists-explore that unrest and its challenge to the legitimacy and stability of the present authoritarian regime. Ranging from political theory to music, from human rights law to social media, their contributions reveal the tenacious and continually evolving forces that are at work resisting the status quo.

Abbas Milani is Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University, USA and codirector, with Larry Diamond, of the Iran Democracy Project at Stanford's Hoover Institution. Larry Diamond is senior fellow at both the Hoover Institution and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford, USA.