Professor Monshipouri's Book Goes 'Inside the Islamic Republic'

MIDDLE EAST FORUM -- Monshipouri, an International Relations professor at San Francisco State University, has assembled 12 essays to examine the social transformation in Iran over the past two decades and to counter “widely held but dubious assumptions about Iranian society, state, culture, and economy.” While his own introduction provides a useful overview of some of the social, cultural and political challenges Iran has faced most recently, the finished product is uneven.