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| 2 | Hamid Dabashi, Iran: A People Interrupted (New York: New Press, 2007). |
| 3 | Nikki Keddie, Modern Iran: Roots and Results of Revolution (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003). |
| 4 | Sandra Mackey, The Iranians: Persia, Islam and the Soul of a Nation (New York: Plume, 1996). |
| 5 | Charles Kurzman, The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004). |