William O. Beeman is Professor of Anthropology and Director of Middle East Studies at Brown University. He has lived and conducted research for over 30 years in all areas of the Middle East. He has served as a consultant to the U.S. State Department and the Department of Defense, and has testified before Congress on Middle Eastern affairs. He is the President-Elect of the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association (2005-2006) and will serve as President from autumn 2006 until 2008, then as Outgoing President from 2008 to 2009.

• Introduction: Discourse and DemonizationAmerican MythsMiddle Eastern MythsDiscourse and RhetoricImages of the Great SatanImages of the Mad MullahThe Framework of U.S. Iranian RelationsThe Sins of the United StatesThe Sins of IranThe Birth of Post-modern Conflict: How Iranian Media Came of AgeLiving with Iran: Resistance as Post-modern Discourse

Regardless of the reader's viewpoint, this book is a challenging analysis by an anthropologist of an international conflict that threatens to get out of control. For that reason alone, this is a timely book.

William O. Beeman is Professor of Anthropology and Director of Middle East Studies at Brown University. He has lived and conducted research for over 30 years in all areas of the Middle East. He has served as a consultant to the U.S. State Department and the Department of Defense, and has testified before Congress on Middle Eastern affairs. He is the President-Elect of the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association (2005-2006) and will serve as President from autumn 2006 until 2008, then as Outgoing President from 2008 to 2009.

• Introduction: Discourse and DemonizationAmerican MythsMiddle Eastern MythsDiscourse and RhetoricImages of the Great SatanImages of the Mad MullahThe Framework of U.S. Iranian RelationsThe Sins of the United StatesThe Sins of IranThe Birth of Post-modern Conflict: How Iranian Media Came of AgeLiving with Iran: Resistance as Post-modern Discourse

Regardless of the reader's viewpoint, this book is a challenging analysis by an anthropologist of an international conflict that threatens to get out of control. For that reason alone, this is a timely book.

William O. Beeman is Professor of Anthropology and Director of Middle East Studies at Brown University. He has lived and conducted research for over 30 years in all areas of the Middle East. He has served as a consultant to the U.S. State Department and the Department of Defense, and has testified before Congress on Middle Eastern affairs. He is the President-Elect of the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association (2005-2006) and will serve as President from autumn 2006 until 2008, then as Outgoing President from 2008 to 2009.

• Introduction: Discourse and DemonizationAmerican MythsMiddle Eastern MythsDiscourse and RhetoricImages of the Great SatanImages of the Mad MullahThe Framework of U.S. Iranian RelationsThe Sins of the United StatesThe Sins of IranThe Birth of Post-modern Conflict: How Iranian Media Came of AgeLiving with Iran: Resistance as Post-modern Discourse

Regardless of the reader's viewpoint, this book is a challenging analysis by an anthropologist of an international conflict that threatens to get out of control. For that reason alone, this is a timely book.