The Indigenous and the Imported: Khatami's Iran

The Indigenous and the Imported: Khatami’s Iran

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Culture is what remains when one no longer believes in Utopia. —Farhad Khosrokhavar and Oliver Roy Comment sortir d’une revolution religieuse1 At the bar of my hotel in Tehran—or what used to be the bar in officially dry, postrevolutionary Iran—I sip…