Acknowledgments Introduction, Ronen A. Cohen Section One: Historical and Current Perspectives on Persian, Islamic, and Contested Religious Identities Chapter One: The Unending Battle between the Persian and Islamic Identities of Iran, Harold Rhode Chapter Two: National Identity or Political Legitimacy: The Reconstruction of the City of Bam, Ladan Zarabadi Section Two: An Islamic-National Identity and Nuclear Program Chapter Three: The Islamic Identity Project: Between Coercion and Voluntarism, Ofira Seliktar Chapter Four: Iran's National Identity and the Nuclear Program: A Rational Choice Theory Analysis, Farhad Rezaei Chapter Five: Overcoming "the -isms": Iranian's Role in the Modern World, from the Perspective of Mahmud Ahmadi-nezhad, Moshe-hay S. Hagigat Section Three: Sexuality, Beauty, and Social Networking--Between the Private, Self, and the Public Sphere Chapter Six: The Identity Designers of the Self in Sexuality, Beauty, and Plastic Surgery in Iran, Ronen A. Cohen Chapter Seven: Iranians against the "Other": Iranian Identity in the Social Media Era, Raz Zimmt Conclusions Bibliography List of Contributors Index.