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GLOBAL JOURNALIST Winter 2008<br />
Mideast Meets West<br />
A photojournalist documents Iran’s<br />
complex relationship with American culture<br />
Photos by Mohammad Kheirkhah, courtesy of UPI<br />
Iranian women<br />
attend a<br />
demonstration<br />
to commemorate<br />
Student Day in<br />
front of the former<br />
U.S Embassy in<br />
Tehran, Nov. 4, 2007.<br />
Iranian universities<br />
have long acted<br />
as incubators<br />
for political and<br />
ideological uprisings<br />
among Iranian<br />
youth seeking to<br />
democratize and<br />
secularize the<br />
country.<br />
Iran is no stranger to culture wars. Situated at the<br />
crossroads of some of history’s most powerful Western and<br />
Eastern empires, the country has long struggled to absorb the<br />
cultural, religious and political residue of foreign systems.<br />
Today, a variety of ideologies continue to clash at the intersections<br />
of East and West, but the threat of encroaching Americanism<br />
looms largest.<br />
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