Islamic Awakening and then the change of the political systems and crises in some countries has had enormous impacts on the political and security cooperation in the Persian Gulf region. On the one hand, Iran, following to enhance relations with new governments, is seeking to strengthen regional cooperations to solve regional issues including the Syria’s crisis. On the other hand, new competiti...

Undoubtedly Islamic Revolution of Iran has been the source of Islamic awakening in the middle-east. Therefore Islamic Republic of Iran plays the role of an example and a director of political developments in the region. Islamic awakening in Arab countries has been able to question the dominant discourse of dictators in the middle-east region and topple their regimes. These developments include ...

The evolution of the Islamic awakening in Egypt in 2011 and the public uprising of people to quit Mubarak from the top of the pyramid of political power changed the regional order in various dimensions and affected the policies of regional and subregional actors. This movement, as an unpredictable development in the Middle East policy of US has created a serious ambiguity and challenge in its p...

With his speeches and messages in hajj days, Imam Khomeini tried to introduce Islamic Awakening as the spirit of war against colonization and global arrogance and attract Muslims' attention to political and social functions of hajj to offer Muslims dignity and inspire them to start an Islamic movement. In his opinion, hajj is an atmosphere to gain knowledge about Islam and to enlighten people a...

From the beginning of twentieth century Islamic intellectual movements called Islamic Awakening Movement were formed in the world of Islam. They were aimed at fighting colonization of Islamic countries by west and help Muslims return to forgotten Islamic laws and regulations. Their primary objective was to regenerate and revive political Islam in twentieth century. Islamic awakening process and...

As the pioneer of contemporary Islamic awakening, Islamic revolution of Iran has a mission to inform people of middle-east region about the opportunities and challenges of recent uprisings. On the other hand, it has yet another mission, called the exportation of the revolution by late Imam Khomeini, to inform people of the countries where Islamic awakening has not spread yet. The tool Islamic r...

This article is aimed at identification of elements in US media's diplomacy toward developments of Islamic awakening in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain and Libya. To this end, VOA Farsi website has been studied and analyzed applying qualitative content analysis from Jan 1st 2011 to Jun 1st 2011 in the framework of theories of goalkeeping, agenda-setting and media representation theory. Studying ...

This article tries to inspect the delusion of Shiite-o-phobia as one of the most important threats for Islamic Awakening. How it has appeared and how it should be handled is the most important concern of this article. The author believes that following the emergence of Islamic Awakening in Iran, strategists of international hegemony have figured out the high potential of Shiites' soft power to ...