Young and Defiant in Tehran

by Shahram Khosravi

Book Overview

With more than half its population under twenty years old, Iran is one of the world's most youthful nations. The Iranian state characterizes its youth population in two ways: as a homogeneous mass, "an army of twenty millions" devoted to the Revolution, and as alienated, inauthentic, Westernized consumers who constitute a threat to the society. Much of the focus of the Islamic regime has been on ways to protect Iranian young people from moral hazards...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812220684
• ISBN13: 9780812220681
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.8"