2.1 Iran today. Land with two faces.

Introduction to our new series. When it comes to Iran, there is irony wherever you look. And it so happens that I love irony. So I'm certainly gonna love the upcoming series. I hope you do to. Most important sources for the series (others can later be added): ABRAHAMIAN E. A history of modern Iran. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008, 260 p. AMANAT A. Iran. A modern history. Yale University Press, Londen, 2017, 979 p. AXWORTHY M. Iran: een cultuurgeschiedenis. Bulaaq, Amsterdam, 2009, 396 p. AXWORTHY M. Revolutionary Iran. A history of the Islamic Republic. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 2013, 496 p. BAYLY C.A. The Birth of the modern world 1780-1914. Global connections and comparisons. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, 2004, 540 p. BAYLY C.A. Remaking the modern world 1900-2015. Global Connections and Comparisons. Wiley Blackwell, Oxford, 2018, 400 p. BOARDMAN J. The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001 536 p. BODANSKY Y. Secret History of the Iraq War. HarperCollins, s.l., 2009, 576 p. CHARLES RIVER EDITORS. The Sassanid Empire: The History and Legacy of the Neo-Persian Empire Before the Arab Conquest and Rise of Islam. Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, s.l. 2017, 70 p. DALE S. The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 2009, 347 p. DARYAEE T. The Oxford handbook of Iranian History. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 2012, 426 p. DARYAEE T. Sasanian Persia. The rise and fall of an empire. IB. Tauris. Londen, 2012, 224 p. EGGER V. A history of the Muslim world since 1260. The making of a global community. Second edition. Routledge. Londen. 578 p. ESPOSITO J. The Oxford history of Islam. Oxford, Oxford University, 1999, 749 p. HARDY R. The Poisoned Well. Empire and its legacy in the Middle East. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2017, 272 p. Encyclopædia Iranica. Encyclopædia Iranica Foundation, Inc. New York. https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles KAPLAN R.D. De wraak van de geografie: wat de wereldkaart ons voorspelt over komende conflicten en het gevecht tegen het onvermijdelijke. Het Spectrum, Antwerpen, 2012, 383 p. KATOUZIAN H. The Persians: ancient, mediaeval and modern Iran. Yale University Press, New Haven, 2010, 452 p. PARRA F. Oil politics. A Modern History of Petroleum. Tauris, Londen, 2004, 375 p. ROBINSON C. The New Cambridge History of Islam (vol I, II, III, IV, VI). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011. SCHWARTZ S. The Other Islam. Sufism and the road to global harmony. Doubleday, New York, 2008, 222 p. VAN DE MIEROOP M., A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000 - 323 BC. Oxford, Blackwell Publishing, 2006, 341 p.