Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran (64 page)

in Qom

in return from France

Rushdie and

on Shah

women politicized by

Khomeini, Mustafa

Khorasan province

Khordad

Khuzestan province

Kiarostami, Abbas

kilim

Kish Island

Kissinger, Henry

kissing in public

Know Thine Enemy
(Shirley)

Komiteh

see also
morals police

Koran

Korani, Ali

Kufa

Kurdistan province

Kurds

Kuwait

labor force, women in

Labor Ministry

Lady of May, The

Lahidji, Shahla

Laleh International Hotel

Land of the Great Sophy, The
(Stevens)

land redistribution

Larijani, Javad

Law of Desire
(Haeri)

Lebanon

Lewinsky, Monica

Libya

literacy rates

Los Angeles Times

Lufthansa

Lurs

lying

maghnaeh

Mahabad

Mahallati, Amir

Mahallati, Ayatollah Majdeddin

mahbub-e shab

Mahdavi, Abdol-Reza Houshang

Mahdavi-Kia, Mehdi

Makarem-Shirazi, Ayatollah Nasser

makeup

Makhmalbaf, Mohsen

Malaysia

Malek-Afzali, Hosein

malekeh

Malta

Mandela, Nelson

Manookian, Artak

manteau

Mao Zedong

Marashi, Effat

Marble Palace

marches and rallies, government-sponsored

marijuana

Marine barracks bombing, in Lebanon

marja

Marlowe, Christopher

marriage

temporary

Martyr, The

martyrdom

Mashad

Massoumeh

Massoumi, Maryam

Maupassant, Guy de

Mazandaranis

Mecca

Mehrabad International Airport

mehriyeh

Mehrjui, Dariush

Mercier, Louis-Sébastien

Metrinko, Michael

Meyer, Milton

middle class

Milani, Farzaneh

Milani, Mahmoud

Milani, Tahmineh

Militant Clergy Society

Militant Clerics’ Association

military service

Millett, Kate

Mir-Hosseini, Ziba

Mirja, Iraj

mirrors

mosaics of

as symbol

Mofid University

Moghadam, Saman

Mohajerani, Ataollah

Mohammad, Agha

Mohammad, Mirza-Ali

Mohammad, Prophet

Mohammadi, Akbar

Mohammadi, Manouchehr

mohareb

Moharram

Mohseni-Ejei, Gholam-Hosein

Mojahedin-e Khalq

Mokhtari, Mohammad

monotheism

Montazeri, Ayatollah Hosein-Ali

Moody’s Investor Service

morals police

Mordecai

Morocco

Moses

mosques

Mossad

Mossadegh, Mohammad

mostazafan

Mottahari, Ayatollah Morteza

Mousavi, Buyuk

Mousavi, Zahra

Mousavi-Khoeiniha, Mohammad

Mozaffarian brothers

mullahs

see also
clerics “mullahvision,”

Museum of Contemporary Art

music

banning of

mustaches

Nabat, Shakheh

Naficy, Hamid

Najaf

Najafabad

najes

nalein

names

Naraghi, Ehsan

Nasseredin, Shah

Nateq-Nouri, Ahmad

Nateq-Nouri, Ali-Akbar

National Cathedral (Washington, DC)

National Front

National Iranian Oil Company

National Library

natural resources

Neauphle-le-Château

Neshat

newspapers

freedom of expression and

history of

licensing of

number and variety of

social and political roles of

women’s

Newsweek

New Year, Persian,
see Nowruz New York Times, The

Niazi, Mohammad

Nicaragua

Noor, Queen of Jordan

Nosrat, Hosein

Nouri, Abdollah

Nouri, Ali-Reza

Nowruz
(Persian New Year)

nuclear weapons

O’Donnell, Terence

Office for Fostering Unity

oil

prices

OPEC

Organization of the Islamic Conference

Pahlavi, Reza Shah

reign of

Pahlavi, Shah Mohammad Reza

censorship under

death of

departure of

Khomeini imprisoned and exiled by

Khomeini on

modernization and

1953 coup and

reign of

Pakistan

Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)

Palestinian Islamic Jihad

Palestinians

Palme d’Or

Pantheon

paradise, Old Persian derivation of

Paris

Parker, Maynard

Parliament, Iranian

limits of power of

religious minorities in

Rushdie and

2000 elections and

women in

Parvini, Shirin

Passenger to Teheran
(Sackville-West)

Passover

Payam-e Emrouz

Payam-e Hajar

Peintre et son modèle
(Picasso)

People’s Holy Warriors

Persepolis

under Islamic Republic

Persia

history of

Persia and the Persian Question
(Curzon)

Persian Gulf

Persian Gulf states

Persian language

pesh merga

Petronas

photographs, “immoral,”

Picasso, Pablo

pilgrims

pistachios

pluralism

poetry

politeness, truth and

see also taarof

political assassinations

of Dariush and Parvaneh Forouhar

of intellectuals

political parties

political refugees

pollution

polygamy

Pony Express

porrou

Postal Service, U.S.

Pouyandeh, Mohammad Jaffar

presidency of Iran

Taleghani’s candidacy and

Presidential Palace

Press Court

private space

alcohol and

beauty salons as

behavior in

indeterminate definition of

intrusions into

invitations to

as refuge from Islamic Republic

see also
homes prostitution