Hamid Naficy, Professor of Radio, Television, Film and Communication at Northwestern University, is one of the world’s leading authorities on Iranian film, and A Social

Pardon this interruption. Before you read Dr. Tehranian's excellent commentary, I just wanted to let you know that on the very first day of “Mamnoon

From Hamid Naficy's The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angles (University of Minnesota Press, 1993), pp. 1-2. A couple of year ago,