Managing New Developments in the Gulf: Rosemary Hollis,editor

Book reviewed in this article: Reaping the Whirlwind: The Taliban Movement in Afghanistan: Michael Griffin     

Seeing,Iranian Style: Women and Collective Vision in Abbas Kiarostami's Shirin

This paper examines the relationship between remediation and intertextuality in Abbas Kiarostami's Shirin (2008), arguing that the act of absorbing and transforming other texts and media within one film creates new conditions for collective vision within the post-revolutionary Iranian discourse of visuality. Focusing on the faces of 114 actresses as they watch a film adaptation of the story of “Khosrow and Shirin,” Kiarostami challenges the post-revolutionary modesty laws and their emphasis on not looking at women and at avoiding a spectator–image relationship based on the fulfillment of the desiring male gaze. By making women the spectators, the film suggests that there is no collective vision without women's vision.     

保定陆军军官学校历史沿革考

保定陆军军官学校(简称保定军校)是我国近代一所规模较大的正规化、实施养成教育的军事学校。它是清朝末年以袁世凯为首的北洋军事政治集团在编练新军、引进东西方先进军事技术和军事教育体制的基础上创办的。保定军校,位于保定市区北郊,原占地3000多亩,1912年创办,保定学校由校本部、分校、大操场和靶场四部分组成,建筑格局工整对称。