TY - JOUR
AU - Gheissari, Ali
AB -  Satire and nitutionalism of m So ra pa tiv , d u ca an A uth Mi d sia i Af r dle Un ty rsi 00 5 P re ss the e uk 25 , i l. Vo 2 . 2, No he period immediately following the nitutional revolution of 1905–6 in Iran witnessed a flowering of political journalism. In addition to reporting on facts and reflecting both regional and international news, periodicals also played an important role in disseminating and debating dirse ids that the nitutional moment had brought to the fore. Particular attention can be paid to how these periodicals reflected dirse views and how they crted a new space for the expression of opinion. Political journalism further ntributed to the dirsity of political writing well to literary yle and format and crted new frameworks for relating them to one another. This too is an important dimension of the new genre’s ntribution to Iranian intellectual and political hiory that is worthy of attention. Furthermore, the proliferation of journaliic opinion w not always a result of political herence or maturity, but at times w divorced of it, suggeing that the nitutional revolution had opened a new 
TI - Despots of the World Unite! Satire in the Iranian Constitutional Press: The Majalleh-ye Estebdad, 1907-1908
JF - Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
DO - 10.1215/1089201X-25-2-360
DA - 2005-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/duke-university-press/despots-of-the-world-unite-satire-in-the-iranian-constitutional-press-CyMPDtcD0s
SP - 360
VL - 25
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -