Contemporary African history in unusual times

History of Contemporary Cultural Psychiatry in Iran:

Cultural psychiatry is one of the relatively new trends in psychiatry that has received much attention today. During the last century, many Iranian psychiatrists have taken steps to introduce various aspects of cultural psychiatry from the field of epidemiology to the cultural conceptualization of psychiatric disorders. This article tries to refer to the history of contemporary cultural psychia...

AIDS and contemporary history

calls "the politics of knowledge dissemination", the tension between the desire to enfranchise the masses medically and the need to keep potentially dangerous knowledge in competent hands. These chapters hardly exhaust the subject, of course. Porter's compendious introduction acknowledges as much, but also rightly suggests that the value of this work is not simply that it explores several new p...

On Defining African Philosophy: History, Challenges, and Perspectives

Integrity through a Comparative Glimpse at Contemporary History

This paper tries to study the role of political leadership and how it influenced victories and failures during history. Therefore, in a journey through fluctuating Iranian history, four prominent and influential wars of past two centuries – initially Iran-Russia war and finally Iran-Iraq war- have been studied. While comparing Iran's political leadership in these wars and their consequences, th...

South African History [Apartheid]

After the Second World War, in 1948, the NP, with its ideology of apartheid that brought an even more rigorous and authoritarian approach than the segregationist policies of previous governments, won the general election. It did so against the background of a revival of mass militancy during the 1940s, after a period of relative quiescence in the 1930s when black groups attempted to foster unit...