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Hamid Yazdan Panah

The New Orientalism: Iran As A Political Commodity

“Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient.”

August 10th, 2016
Hamid Yazdan Panah
August 10th, 2016
By Hamid Yazdan Panah
“Entrance of a Caravanserai in Isfahan” (1840), by French Orientalist painter Eugène Flandin. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Iran is a hot commodity. Whether it is being sold as a misunderstood land of mystery, or eyed as a potential business or investment opportunity, it is difficult to find a narrative which does not reduce the country to a means to a particular end. Historically, this included the vilification of Iran as an anti-western wasteland, divorced from

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