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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines the historical displacement of Indigenous peoples in Venezuela, focusing on the links between indigenist policies and the exploitation of natural resources, particularly oil, throughout the 20th century. Using a combined historical and ethnographic approach, it demonstrates how the formation of the Venezuelan nation‐state
Gabriel Tardelli
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Power Transition and Pragmatic Adaptation: Iran's Strategic Approach to China, Russia and the GCC
Global Policy, Volume 17, Issue 2, Page 200-209, May 2026.ABSTRACT This study examines how Iranian strategic thinkers conceptualise the country's ‘Look East’ policy (i.e., relations with China and Russia) and the GCC states. Using thematic qualitative content analysis of approximately 70 documents from Iranian state official, advisory and academic institutions (2015–2025), it reveals that Iran's eastward ...
Sara Bazoobandi
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Arab Medical Tourists in Iran: A Phenomenological Study of Lived Experience
Health Science Reports, Volume 9, Issue 4, April 2026.ABSTRACT Background and Aims This study explores the lived experiences of medical tourists in Shiraz, Iran, a major destination for patients from Arab countries. Understanding these experiences is essential to inform health policy and improve the development of the medical tourism sector. Methods In this phenomenological research which was conducted in
Fatemeh Shaygani +5 more
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“American Islam”: The Politics of Religious Authenticity in Iran
Digest of Middle East Studies, Volume 35, Issue 3, Summer 2026.ABSTRACT This article analyzes “American Islam” as a political category of religious authenticity in the Islamic Republic of Iran rather than as a fixed theological concept. Using a critical discourse‐analytic framework, it examines how Ayatollah Khomeini and Ayatollah Khamenei construct and operationalize the opposition between pure Muhammadan Islam ...
Fateh Saeidi
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Historical Change of the strategies for the Recognition of Concealment in the Conduct of Shiite Imams [PDF]
تاریخ اسلام, 2018 Concealment is considered as one of the main issues of research on the history of Islamic beliefs. Shiites of Imamiyeh have been considered as the most believers of concealment compared with the other religions.
Yahya Mirhosseini, Ali Babakhani
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Transnational Nationalisms Reflections on Nationalism and Territory in Globalization
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 282-291, April 2026.ABSTRACT Transnational practices redefine nationalism: a nonterritorial sense of belonging for groups and extraterritorial sovereignty for states. Territory is at the core of the analysis in both cases. For groups and communities' transnationalism leads to a new imagined community guided by an “imagined geography” that is not territorial.
Riva Kastoryano
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The Role of Seyed e- Tavoos- 664 after Hijrah- Regarding the Cultural and Social Advancement of Shiites [PDF]
تاریخ اسلام, 2017 Shiites were considerably developed both culturally and socially, particularly in Bagdad., Raziuddin Ali Ibn e- Musa Ibn e- Tavoos, 589- 664 After Hijrah, was definitely of a great role in this advancement.
mohsen rahmati, zeynab Beiranvand
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Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.Abstract The increased reliance on remote warfare by US‐led military coalitions presents us with questions of “what war is” and “how to know about war” in the 21st century. In this article we substantiate calls for an embodied epistemology of war by introducing a transdisciplinary research agenda to investigate the temporal and spatial civilian harm ...
Lauren Gould +3 more
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Shanghai Co‐Operation Organisation: A Concert of Eurasia?
Asia &the Pacific Policy Studies, Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2026.ABSTRACT The Shanghai Co‐operation Organisation (SCO) has emerged as a viable intergovernmental organisation with a vibrant security portfolio. With its recent expansion it now boasts ten members, including rising great powers Russia, China, and India, as well as nuclear‐armed Pakistan, and regional power Iran.
James MacHaffie
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Investigating the Concept of Zaidi Imāms and its Effect on Shaping Political-Social Movements of Shiites of This Sect in Second and Third Centuries AH [PDF]
پژوهشهای تاریخی ایران و اسلام, 2018 Transforming the concept of Imamate and the consequences of its different definitions is one of most challenging theological and historical issues among Shia religious scholars, orators, jurist and historians.
yaghoub panahi +3 more
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