Iran and the West

Margaux Whiskin is a lecturer in the languages department at the University of Warwick. She has previously taught at Universite Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) and the University of St. Andrews, where she also received her PhD. David Bagot is a lecturer in History and Politics at Newcastle-under-Lyme College. He also received his PhD from the University of St. Andrews.

• Foreword by Ali AnsariIntroduction by Margaux WhiskinPart 1. CLASSICAL REPRESENTATIONS1. The Graeco-Roman World and the Old Persian Civilisation, Between Archaeological and Historical Evidence Bruno Genito2. Tacitus and the Great Kings Leonardo Gregoratti3.Roman and Iranian Perceptions of the Other in Late Antiquity David Bagot4. Xerxes and Leonidas: Conversations Between Ancient Persia and Seventeenth-Century FranceMargaux WhiskinPart 2. LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS5. German Translations of Sa’di’s Golestân (The Rose Garden)Nina Zandjani6. ‘Parisian or Persian?’: An Introduction on the French Roots of the First Iranian Social Novels Ali Behpajooh7. Entrapped in a Carved-up Land: Revisiting Lolita in Tehran Amir Ahmadi Arian8. ‘Our White Hands’: Iran and Germany’s 1968 Annie Pfeifer9. ‘Death to Freedom, Death to Captivity’: Beyond Shahriar Mandanipour’s ‘Islamic’ Love StoryRoxanne Bibizadeh10. Homeland Dramatizations and Native Gaze Demolitions in Nahid Rachlin’s Foreigner and Porochista Khakpour’s Sons and Other Flammable Objects Giulia ValsecchiPart 3. IMAGINING THE OTHER: FACT AND FANTASY IN CULTURAL INFLUENCES11. Tbilisi as a Bridge Between Iran and Europe in the 19th Century George Sanikidze12. Reading Illness as Difference: American Medical Missionaries in Iran, 1834-1940 Lydia Wytenbroek13. A Narrative of Historical and Cultural Ties Between Iran and Romania Elham MalekzadehPart 4. VISUAL AND MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS14. Zan-i Farangi, a Symbol of Occident: the European Women in Farangi Sazi Paintings (1666-1694) Negar Habibi15. Meeting of Anthropology and Racial Ideology in Hollywood: Discovering ‘the Forgotten People’ and Remembering ‘the Lost Tribe’ in Grass (1925)Ali Sadidi Heris16. The Many Faces of Soraya in the German Popular Press in the 1950s Birgit Röder17. Veils, Vampires and the Western Gaze: Gender Images and the Notion of Beauty from Qajar to Post-Revolutionary Iran Maryam ArasPart 5. POLITICAL PERCEPTIONS18. The Enduring Orient: British Perceptions of Iran, 1906-1909 and 1976-1979 Savka Andic19. Demonising Britain, Embracing Russia: Political Double Standards or Political Oblivion? Nahid Ghani20. The Great Satan and the Axis of Evil: The Politics of Demonization in Iran and the United States Laleh Gomari-Luksch21. Possibilities of a Renewed Engagement Between Iran and the West Muhammad Athar MasoodAfterword by Andrew Knapp

"This is an important collection of essays which explores multiple expressions of cultural interaction between Iran and the West from Antiquity to the present. It introduces new perspectives on this complex relationship as well as reflecting current modes of thought and interpretation." - Dr Tim Greenwood, Senior Lecturer and Director of the Institute of Iranian Studies, University of St Andrews