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Re-Thinking Iran Hijab, censorship, a chauvinistic senseof superiority over Arabs, an ancient culture, the monumental Persepolis,clerics, the Islamic Revolution. The grid is probably enough to bring Iran intopublic or even scholarly mind in the contemporary world. But does this picturedo justice to this nation-state and its diversity of cultures? Besides apsychological desire and a quest for the exotic, discursive representations andstereotypes have shaped the occidental understanding of the orient and theglobal conceptualization of Iran. Ina conversation with the CLCWeb editor, Ari Ofengenden, we agreed thatcritical theory must seriously broaden its scope to include alternativenon-Eurocentric perspectives. Iran would be one place to look for thisalternative outlook. As it arises from a specific, though contingent, context,however, (literary) theory cannot be treated as if it exists in a vacuum. Thatis one reason why its travels are not necessarily guaranteed to always causebrilliant results. Accordingly, for a thematic issue of CLCWeb, we areinterested in articles that freshly remap the contemporary Iranian literature, cultureand its pedigree, and contextualize and (re-)interpret it in its broader nationaland transnational context. The issue intends to surprise the world by providinga fresh and unexpected picture of Iran as located in comparative literature andcultural studies. Welike to receive different and opposing views in order to be able to representthe diversity of the Iranian situation and shatter the homogeneous, essentialiststereotype that has impeded a full appreciation of the country and its localand global relationships in a world infested with wars, terrorism, (forced) (im)migrations,displacement, global inequalities and asymmetries, and climate change, amongothers. Such a rethinking will hopefully contribute to the establishment ofmore constructive relationships between the world and Iran.Wekindly invite you to send your papers to [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask] by November2017. The thematic issue is aimed for June 2018. Please prepare your manuscriptaccording to CLCWeb Style Guide and CLCWeb Best Practices. P.S.: UNIVERSITY PRESS <http://www.thepress.purdue.edu>CLCWeb:Comparative Literature and Culture ISSN 1481-4374 <http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb> Purdue University Press ©Purdue UniversityCLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (1999-), thepeer-reviewed, full-text, and open-access humanities and social sciencesquarterly, publishes new scholarship following tenets of the discipline ofcomparative literature and the field of cultural studies designated as "comparativecultural studies." The journal publishes peer-reviewed articles inregular, thematic, and special issues, review articles of scholarly books, andresearch material in its Library Series.Publications in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture areindexed in the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature(Chadwyck-Healey), the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Thomson ReutersISI-AHCI), the Humanities Index (Wilson), Humanities International Complete(EBSCO), the International Bibliography of the Modern Language Association ofAmerica, & Scopus (Elsevier). CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture is member of The Council of Editors of Learned Journals& it is listed in the Directory of OpenAccess Journals. The journal is archived in the ElectronicCollection of Library and Archives Canada & in the Portico & CLOCKSS systems for archivalpreservation of born-digital scholarly content. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture is affiliated with thePurdue University Press monograph series of Booksin Comparative Cultural Studies.