Ethnic Identity and the State in Iran

Ethnic Identity and the State in Iran is a 2013 book by Alam Saleh in which the author examines inter-ethnic tension and the politicization of ethnic identity in Iran. He suggests that problems with ethnicity and nationality in Iran, as in other countries of the Middle East, has not been so much the result of ethnic identity formation, but the product of the securitization of ethnic issues. The book has received positive reviews in the Middle East Journal, Review of Middle East Studies, the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, and Nations and Nationalism.

Ethnic Identity and the State in Iran
AuthorAlam Saleh
LanguageEnglish
SubjectIranian politics
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Publication date
July 2013
Media typePrint
Pages233 pp.
ISBN978-1-349-45676-5
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