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English Verso Iranian Masculinities Preface: Iranian Masculinities Mostafa Abedinifard and Sahar Allamezade-Jones A Tree Atop the Mountain: Mobad Manikan and the Elusive Promises of Masculinity Cameron Cross ‘Prescriptive’ Masculinity?: Deception and Restraint in the Films of Asghar Farhadi Niki Akhavan An Iranian Female Vampire Walks Home Alone and Disturbs Freud’s Oedipal Masculinity Mahdi Tourage On […]
Iran Namag: A Bilingual Quarterly of Iranian Studies Volume 7, Number 2, Summer 2024 Editor-in-Chief: Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi Iradj Pezeshkzad Commemorative Issue Guest Editors: Mostafa Abedinifard & Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi English Verso Introduction to the Special Issue Mostafa Abedinifard & Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi Iraj Pezeshkzad’s “Prosecuting an Author”: A Translation and Short Commentary Alireza Korangy […]
Iran Namag: A Bilingual Quarterly of Iranian Studies Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 2024 Editor-in-Chief: Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi Radio Special Issue Guest Editor: Khatereh Sheibani ENGLISH VERSO Radio Special Issue The Golden Era of Radio Iran (1940-1978): A Modernist Aural Culture Khatereh Sheibani The Advent and Development of Radio in Iran Bigan Kimiachi Radio: […]
Editor-in-Chief: Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi Literary Diasporas of Iran Guest Editors: Claudia Yaghoobi & Asghar Seyed-Gohrab English Verso Introduction Claudia Yaghoobi and Asghar Seyed-Gohrab Poetry as Salve for Persian Exiles Asghar Seyed-Gohrab Exile and Absence from the True Homeland: The Topos of Exile in Religious Literature Alan Williams The Complete Persepolis: Visualizing Exile in a Transnational […]
English Verso Editor-in-Chief: Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi “Is Hindenburg a Sultan?” The Trial of the Iranian Communist Journal Peykar in Weimar Germany Sheragim Jenabzadeh Mapping the Unmappable: A Critical Study of Dead Reckoning: A Novel by Bahman Sho‘levar Babak Mazloumi History through Talisman: The Historical Value of a Newly Identified Safavid Treatise by Molla Jalal-e Monajjem-e Yazdi […]
English Verso Editor-in-Chief: Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi Special Issue Dedicated to Ahmad Ashraf for His Lifetime Contribution to Iranian Studies Editors: Amir Ismail Ajami & Mohamad Tavakoli Land Reform and Agrarian Transformation in Iran, 1962–78 Amir Ismail Ajami Farmer–Herder Villages and the Revolution Mary Martin Individualization and the Emergence of Personalized Politics in Post-Revolutionary Iran Azadeh Kian […]
English Verso Translating Rumi through the Prism of Ideology Amir Artaban Sedaghat Persian Reverso Lily Ayman (Ahy), 1929-2018 Javad Abbasi The Signification of “Shah” and “Shahi” in the Eastern Islamic Lands Abbas Ahmadvand The Peculiarities of Golestan Palace’s Art and Architecture from the Perspective of Foreign Travelogues Abbas Panahi and Saman Kashani From Vernacular […]
Special Issue Dedicated to Professor Shirin Bayani Guest Editors: Javad Abbasi English Verso Manuscripts and Digital Technologies: A Renewed Research Direction in the Ilkhanid History of Iran Bruno De Nicola Persian Reverso A Pioneering Woman: A Historiographical Review of Professor Shirin Bayani’s Scholarship Javad Abbasi The Mimeses of the Shahnameh and Historical Epics in […]
Special Issue Dedicated to Professor Badrolzaman Gharib Guest Editors: Jaleh Amouzegar and Firouzeh Qandehari English Verso Further Fragments of Sogdian Manichaean Riddles? Christiane Reck The Turtle and the Geese: A Pañcatantra Fable in Sogdian Nicholas Sims-Williams The Manichaean “Living Self”As Reflected in Persian Mystical Poetry Omid Behbahani Persian Reverso The Unique Badri of Our Time […]
English Verso Festival of Arts, Shiraz-Persepolis, 1967-1977 Mahasti Afshar Dye on the Frontier: Henna and the Military Elites of Nineteenth-Century Bam James Gustafson Voluntary Conversions of Iranian Jews in the Nineteenth Century Nahid Pirnazar Book Review Thesaurus of Judeo-Tat (Juhuri): The Language of the Mountain Jews of the Caucasus by Rabbi Ya‘akov Itzhaki Dan Shapira […]
English Verso The Dynamics of Resistance: Moral Concepts in Sī mī n 4 Dāneshvar’s Sūvashūn Magdalena Rodziewicz An Inquiry into the Terms Adab, Adib, Adabiyat in the 26 Perso-Arabic Languages Shayan Afshar State Capacity and Democratization in Iran Misagh Parsa Persian Reverso Iranian Wine in a European Jar: A Reflection on the 3 Spatial […]
English Verso Special Issue Dedicated to Professor Mohammad-Ali Islami-Nodoushan Guest Editor: Javad Abbasi & Mahmood Fotoohi-Rudmajani Religious Minorities in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the “Right to Have Rights” Anja Pistor-Hatam Male Same-Sex Sexuality in the Legislation and Jurisdictions of the Islamic Republic Arash Guitoo Journalist Memoirs and the Iranian Diaspora: Truth, Professional Ethics, and […]
Babak Elahi <bxegsl@rit.edu> teaches in the School of Communication at Rochester Institute of Technology. He holds a PhD in American literature from the University ofRochester. His work has been published in Iranian Studies; Alif; MELUS, International Journal of Fashion Studies, and Cultural Studies. His book, The Fabric of American Realism, was published by McFarland Press in 2009. Elahi writes about American literary and cultural […]
English Verso A Special Issue Dedicated to Professor Hamid Naficy Guest Editor: Golbarg Rekabtalaei Introduction: Alternative Visions of Iranian Culture: A Celebration of Hamid Naficy’s Work Golbarg Rekabtalaei Video Sensations: The Experimental Films of Hamid Naficy Simran Bhalla Exilic, Diasporic, and Ethnic Media: Hamid Naficy’s Oeuvre from an International Communication Perspective Mehdi Semati What a […]
English Verso Special issue on Foucault in Iran Foucault and Iran Reconsidered: Revolt, Religion, and Neoliberalism Michiel Leezenberg French Secular Thought: Foucault and Political Spirituality Brian Turner Risking Prophecy in the Modern State: Foucault, Iran, and the Conduct of the Corey McCall Foucault and Epicureanism of the Iranian Revolution Yadullah Shahibzadeh What is at the […]
We are pleased to present the Spring 2018 issue of Iran Namag as a special issue, and the first collection of essays, on the topic of Iranian masculinities.[1] Academic studies of Iranian men and masculinities mainly gained ground during the past decade or so, especially outside Iran, and following the global wave in masculinities studies.[2] […]
English Verso On Abbas Kiarostam Transcending Cinema: Kiarostami’s Approach to Filmmaking Maryam Ghorbankarimi Trajectory of Smooth Female Spaces within the Striated Masculine in Kiarostami’s Ten Pouneh Saeedi Waves of Stasis: Photographic Tendency and Cinematic Kindness in Kiarostami’s Five (Dedicated to Ozu) Donna Honarpisheh Kiarostami and Love on the Iranian Screen Proshot Kalami On the Borders […]
English Verso My Kurdish Brother, Amir Hassanpour Thomas M. Ricks The Raven of Separation: Arabic Poetic Topoi and the Persian Courtly Tradition Asghar Seyed-Gohrab Interiority and the City Center: Locating the Gulistan Harem During Nassir al-Dīn Shah’s Reign Leila Pourtavaf Arānī, Kasravī and Demonic Irrationality: Discourses of Reason and Scientific Explanation Arshavez Mozafari Persian […]
Amir. Your name is so simple. “The Commander.” But, in fact, it’s more complicated than that. Your father changed it from Omar to Amir knowing that you would be in a Shi’a land in Tehran for the last years of your high school. In fact, there was nothing simple about you at all. Born on […]
Yarshater Lectureship in Avestan and Pahlavi Languages established at the University of Toronto The study of Avestan and Pahlavi languages will now be offered at the University of Toronto thanks to the support of the Persian Heritage Foundation. In honour of Dr. Ehsan Yarshater, a renowned scholar and celebrated author, the Persian Heritage Foundation and […]
The Editors’ Introduction to the Special Issue Mostafa Abedinifard Assistant Professor of Modern Persian Literature and Culture, UBC Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi Instructional Professor of Persian, University of Chicago I. Iraj Pezeshkzad’s Revolutions: The Humourist’s Serious Legacy Mostafa Abedinifard[1] A highly prolific author and by far the most renowned Iranian satirist of the past several decades, Iraj […]
The Golden Era of Radio Iran (1940-1978): A Modernist Aural Culture Khatereh Sheibani اگر میشد صدا را دید چه گلهایی … چه گلهایی! که از باغ صدای تو به هر آواز میشد چید! اگر میشد صدا را دید محمدرضا شفیعی کدکنی If voice could be seen! gorgeous flowers … gorgeous flowers! could be picked, from […]
If we conduct a quick search within Persian classical literature, we will find specimens of the experience of exile as a leitmotiv from the outset of Persian poetry in the ninth century. Exile is a central theme in Persian mystical poetry, in which the expulsion of the human soul from its original abode and longing to return […]
Sheragim Jenabzadeh is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. His dissertation, “City of Aspirations: Iranian Student Activism in Interwar Berlin,” examines the publications and political activities of Iranian youth in Weimar and Nazi Germany and their engagement with the modernizing efforts of the Iranian state. He has received […]
