Greater Iran

History is a powerful and influential force. History has the power to make a precedent in modern day through other people’s actions long ago. History, nevertheless, is multi-faceted. There are various aspects of history that shape what happened once before. For example, the history of military and how it evolved or the history of education, technology or the arts. The history of religion and how it shaped the world is the topic of discussion for this paper. History can be an authoritative…

What happened during the Armenian genocide still today affects those who survived that horrific experience and even the family members of those victims who didn’t make it through and of those who did survive the genocide. The reason for the genocide was that the Ottomans believed that the Armenians were a problem in Turkey ands they needed to get rid of them in order to save Turkey and also because they were non-Muslim and believed them to be second-level and this is what led to the mass murder…

The United States begin discussing the best negotiation strategy with Iran. President Clinton, now on her second term, insist the best course of action is announcing that if Iran is willing, the United States will send Secretary of State James Steinberg to Tehran. This move indicates the United States’ negotiation commitment with Iran, and is an extremely bold move considering no diplomat has stepped foot in Tehran since the mid-1980s. The U.S. National…

The last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, had a solid group of supporters and a continuous group of adamant opposition. His opponents were against and hostile toward his actions and policies of attempting to secularize and progress Iran towards modernity. The fundamentalist’s of Iran vehemently disagreed that Iran should have ties to the West. To their dismay, the Shah of Iran strengthen ties to the West and particularly to the United States of America after the 1953 Iranian Coup. The CIA…

My Misconception of Jordan The Middle East was nothing like I experienced it to be. I was expecting to see women fully covered from head to toe and very poor areas. Although that type of lifestyle does exist in the Middle East, I rarely saw it. In the Middle East, I stayed in Amman, Jordan. When I first arrived to my grandmother’s area I noticed every woman had their body and hair covered. The men wore sandals with jeans and regular t-shirts and no one drove nice cars.…

The Iran-Iraq war impacted both the woman and children of Iraq as the war left “many of them widows and orphans (Ahmed 158). Huda Ahmed claims that approximately 160,000 to 240,000 Iraqi soldiers were killed during the war, with figures of the actual number…

Throughout most of this class this semester, the idea of what makes an Islamic movement authentically “Islamic” appears to be explicit, hardline doctrinal ties to the establishment of some sort of Islamic polity. As Ali Rahnema mentions in the introduction of the Pioneers of the Islamic Revival: “Islamic Revivalism …is characterized by a renewed interest in Islam as an endogenous ideology with redeeming powers. For the born-again Muslim the Qur’an and the Tradition of the Prophet provide…

determination and fortitude to achieve goals. “Persian Girls” is the story of hope, dreams, sisterhood and oppression. Since the past many decades Iran…

The Islamic Revolution began in the year of 1979. The Revolution caused many of bad changes in Iran such as, no freedom, closing of bilingual schools, segregation by gender in schools, and women were expected to wear a veil. Persepolis is a graphic novel written by Marjane Satrapi. The novel gives readers an inside on her life as a child during the Islamic Revolution. In Persepolis, Marji is a ten year old and girl that is realizing how difficult life is when your country is going through a…

Whether it be by brute force or by mutual benefit, both empires are considered to be some of the most powerful empires in our world’s history. They we 're able to establish and conquer lands much greater than all others in their time on earth. The Assyrian empire was mighty, ferocious, fearless, and dominate in the Middle East, and sometimes that can be a really good thing. Unfortunately they we 're all of those things to its own people instead of…