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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 […]
Amir Ismail Ajami has worked at Plan Organization, Tehran; University of Tehran; Pahlavi University, Shiraz; the Ministry of Agriculture, Tehran; and the University of Arizona. His research interests focus on rural social change, peasant studies, agrarian transition, and rural social stratification. Selected publications include Shishdangi: Pazhuhishi dar zaminah-yi jamashinasi-yi rusta’I (Sixdangi: A Study in the […]
English Verso Forgiveness for what? Vis and Ramin and Troilus and Criseyde Dick Davis Tales of Two Cities: Tehran in Persian Fiction M.R. Ghanoonparvar Translating Race: Simin Daneshvar’s Negotiation of Blackness Amy Motlagh ‘O Lord! You Broke My Wine Jug’: Omar Khayyām’s Transgressive Ethics and their Socio-Political Implications in Contemporary Iran A.A. Seyed-Gohrab The Beginning […]
بخش فارسی ویژهنامۀ استاد احمد کریمی حکاک ویراستاران مهمان: فاطمه شمس پر پرواز و پای پویایی: گفتوگویی با احمد کریمی حکاک فاطمه شمس زبان شاعرانه در انقلاب: گذار به نثر در انقلاب ۵۷ امیر احمدی آریان نهادشناسی ادبیات در افغانستان ولی پرخاش احمدی تماشای هستی از چشم مور: مبانی تجربۀ باریکاندیشی در سبک هندی محمود […]
Amir Artaban Sedaghat <sedaghat.amir@gmail.com> holds a PhD from the Sorbonne in sciences du langage, with a specialization in transcultural communications. He currently teaches French translation at the University of Toronto. A multilingual scholar, he focuses his research on the reception of Persian classical literature in the West. He has published articles about the semiology of […]
Dr. Bruno De Nicola <Bruno.deNicola@oeaw.ac.at> born in Buenos Aires (Argentina), studied Medieval History at the University of Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) and Middle Eastern Studies at SOAS (University of London, United Kingdom). He received his doctorate in Persian Studies at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) in 2011. Since 2017 he is Lecturer in the History of […]
Christiane Reck <reck@bbaw.de> is a research associate at Goettingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities at the project Union Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts in Germany. She has published Gesegnet sei dieser Tag: Manichäische Festtagshymnen – Edition der mittelpersischen und parthischen Sonntags-, Montags- und Bemahymnen (Turnhout, 2004) and three volumes of the Catalogue of Mitteliranische Handschriften in […]
Iranian cultural history has been overshadowed by a grand narrative of political history that disregards shifts within the Iranian fields of culture. This focus on political history stems from Iran’s geopolitical position and its implication in international politics. A symptom of a homogenous historical time, such an over-determining political history collapses the continuities and discontinuities […]
Introduction Look! Have you ever seen, or heard from any wise man, such deeds As Ramin has done to me time and again? He’s wearied my heart of sweet life! By the hands of Vis, her Nurse, and my brother, I forever burn in fire; Confounded by these three sorcerers, no salve can ease this […]
Born and raised in Tehran, Iran, Maryam Ghorbankarimi (mg91@st-andrews.ac.uk) completed her PhD in film studies at the University of Edinburgh and her dissertation was published as a book entitled A Colourful Presence: The Evolution of Women’s Representation in Iranian Cinema. As well as a scholar, Maryam is a filmmaker and has made some award-winning short […]
Introduction Abū ’l-Najm Aḥmad ibn Qows ibn Aḥmad Manūchihrī of Dāmghān (d. circa 1040/41) started his career at the court of Falak al-Maʿālī Manūchihr (r. 1012-1031), a ruler of the Zīyārid dynasty (930-1090) who governed the southern shores of the Caspian Sea.[1] Although the poet took his pen name Manūchihrī from this ruler, there are […]
Mirza Reza Khan Afshar (1887-1964) was a Majles deputy from Urmia and Tabriz, minister of roads and transportation, and governor of Gilan, Kerman and Esfahan between 1923-1955. In 1944, while banned from public service, he pioneered Iranian Airways, the first commercial airline in Iran, which he served as chairman and CEO until the company was nationalized […]
Sohrab Sepehri, a Universal Poet: An Introduction to His Life and Works Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi University of Chicago Introduction Sohrab Sepehri (1928-1980) is one of the best known and most beloved poets of contemporary Iran, celebrated also for his work as a modernist painter. Although a number of studies in Iran have been devoted to his […]
“Prosecuting an Author,” A Short Story of Iraj Pezeshkzad: A Translation and Short Commentary Alireza Korangy Before venturing into a brief hermeneutical query as to the thematic parameters of “Prosecuting an Author,” and then its translation, it is perhaps prudent to first address Pezeshkzad as an author as means of a segue into his work—and […]
The Advent and Development of Radio in Iran[1] Bigan Kimiachi Administration and Technological Development Long-distance communication in Iran began with the advent of the wired telegraph and the wireless telegraph, and in this respect progress from a simple telegraph communication system to a complex broadcasting network followed the same path as in most other countries. […]
Asghar Seyed-Gohrab is a professor of Persian and Iranian Studies at Utrecht University and an associate professor at Leiden University. In addition to many articles, blogs, and chapters, he has authored, edited, and translated several books on Persian literature and culture. His latest publications include the edited volumes Pearls of Meanings: Studies on Persian Art, Poetry, […]
Babak Mazloumi is a literary translator and critic. Currently, he is a PhD candidate in comparative literature at the University of California, Irvine, focusing on literary translation, exile literature, and literary criticism within the larger area of contemporary Persian literature. His latest publications include an essay on Through the Windowpanes by Akbar Radi in Text […]
Mary Martin studied the ecological impact of farmer–herder strategies in northeast Iran for eighteen months during the 1974–78 period while engaged in doctoral research at Washington University in St. Louis. She has published widely on conservation at the local level; goat products and marketing; pastoral production, milk, and firewood in Turan ecology; production strategies, […]
Dick Davis is an emeritus professor of Persian at Ohio State University. He has written scholarly works on both English and Persian literature, as well as nine volumes of his own poetry. His publications include volumes of poetry and verse translation chosen as books of the year by The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, (United […]
Nicholas Sims-Williams <ns5@soas.ac.uk> studied Iranian languages, Sanskrit and Syriac at Cambridge, obtaining his PhD with a thesis on the Sogdian manuscript C2, a miscellany of Christian texts translated from Syriac. In 1976 he joined the staff of SOAS, University of London, where he became Research Professor of Iranian and Central Asian Studies in 2004 and Emeritus […]
Mahasti Afshar <azmahasti@gmail.com> studied drama, film and classical music production in London (BBC) and Paris (ORTF), and while on staff at NITV/NIRT, recorded live performances at the Shiraz Arts Festival for later broadcasting on TV. She earned a PhD in Sanskrit and Indo-European Folklore and Mythology (Harvard 1988) and pursued a career as a nonprofit […]
