Ali Mohammadi is Reader in International Communication and Cultural Studies at The Nottingham Trent University. His recent publications are Globalization and Recolonization: The Muslim World in the 21st Century, with Muhammad Ahsan (Taha, 2002), Iran and Eurasia, co-edited with A. Ehteshami (Ithaca Press, 2000), International Communication and Globalisation: A Critical Introduction (Sage, 1997) and ‘Electronic Empires: An Islamic Perspective’, in Electronic Empires (Arnold, 1998).