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Magdalena Rodziewicz < mrodziewicz@uw.edu.pl> is an Assistant Professor of Iranian Studies at the University of Warsaw. Her research interests focus on modern Iran and its intellectual tradition. She has published on Iranian religious intellectuals and contemporary Shi’a theological and legal debates. Her second area of study is devoted to the ethical dimension of contemporary Iranian culture, […]
Anja Pistor-Hatam <pistor-hatam@islam.uni-kiel.de> is professor of Islamic Studies (Middle Eastern Studies) at Kiel University. She is also a member of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg. Her research interests focus on history, mainly intellectual history of Iran. Her latest publications involve Geschichtsschreibung und Sinngeschichte in Iran: Historische Erzählungen von mongolischer Eroberung und […]
Simran Bhalla <simranbhalla2018@u.northwestern.edu> is a PhD candidate in the Screen Cultures program at Northwestern University, Illinois. She is writing a dissertation on experimental state-sponsored documentaries from India and Iran made during the 1960s and 1970s. This comparative study examines the role of modernism in nation-building and each state’s filmic pedagogies for modernity. Bhalla’s other research […]
Michiel Leezenberg <m.m.leezenberg@uva.nl> teaches in the Philosophy and Religious Studies departments of the University of Amsterdam. He has published numerous articles on the social and intellectual history of the Islamic world, and on the history and philosophy of the humanities. Introduction Over three decades after his death and almost four decades after his […]
In the wake of Farhadi’s most recent international success with The Salesman, an angry article on the conservative site Mashregh News asked, “For which society does Asghar Farhadi write up his prescriptions of masculinity?” According to the author, Hossein Soleimani, this prescription calls on men, specifically men from the middle to upper middle classes, to […]
We are led to pose the woman question to history in quite elementary forms like, “Where is she? Is there any such thing as woman?” At worst, many women wonder whether they even exist. They feel they don’t exist and wonder if there has ever been a place for them. I am speaking of […]
The shipwreck of the Titanic happened far from the Iranian lands, as did modernity and modernization. Nevertheless, it had an impact on the Iranian atmosphere even more than the disasters happening in Iran. The impact of modernization is evident and commonplace, requiring no extensive argumentation to prove. The capitalist states imposed upon the so-called backward […]
Sohrab Sepehri as a Mythical Character in Shahrnush Parsipur’s Blue Logos R. Ghanoonparvar University of Texas Austin Shahrnush Parsipur’s monumental novel ‘Aql-i Abi (translated into English as Blue Logos), published in 1994, can be described as a compendium of allusions in which the author utilizes and makes reference to the art, literature, philosophy, history, and […]
Da’i Jan Napelon as a Comic Masterpiece Dick Davis I have written elsewhere[1] about the pleasures and difficulties of translating Iraj Pezeshkzad’s Da’i Jan Napelon, so here I shall confine myself to more general reflections about the novel and its possible relationships with other literary works, together with a word or two about my virtually […]
Radio: A New Cultural History of Listening to Iranian Music (1940-1952)[1] Pouya Nekouei Introduction Radio was a significant medium in the formation of modernity’s global soundscape. From the early decades of the twentieth century, radio became an important part of mass media, not only in Western capitalist contexts, but in the Global South as […]
Alan Williams is Research Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Religion at the University of Manchester, was British Academy Research Professor, and held a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship. His interests span the literatures and cultures of pre-Islamic and Islamic Iran, with published studies of Pahlavi-era, classical, and modern Persian texts. Among his most recent […]
Behzad Karimi is an assistant professor in the Department of Iranian Studies at Meybod University. His main field of research is Safavid history. He has published several articles and books, among which his most important books are Women in the Safavid Medical Discourse (Pejuheshkadeh-ye Tarikh e-Islam, 2016) and Time and Cosmology in the Safavid Era […]
Azadeh Kian is a distinguished professor of sociology, director of the social science department, and director of the Center for Gender and Feminist Studies and Research and its journal, Les cahiers du CEDREF, at Université de Paris. Her research focuses on politics and society in Iran, gender and Islam, and gender and power in […]
M.R. Ghanoonparvar is a professor emeritus of Persian and comparative literature at The University of Texas at Austin. He has published widely on Persian literature and culture in both English and Persian and is the author of numerous books, most recently Iranian Film and Persian Fiction (Mazda, 2016) and Dining at the Safavid Court (Mazda, […]
Omid Behbahani <behbahani@ihcs.ac.ir> is an Associate Professor in Ancient Iranian Culture and Languages at the Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies (IHCS), Tehran, Iran. She teaches Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian Texts of Turfan (Xinyang, China) at IHCS, Faculty of Linguistics (1998-present). She was appointed Invited Lecturer in Persian Language and Iranian Studies at Eötvös […]
James M. Gustafson <James.Gustafson@indstate.edu> is Associate Professor of History at Indiana State University. He has published widely on the social and economic history of 18th-19th century Iran and Central Asia. His first book, Kirman and the Qajar Empire: Local Dimensions of Modernity in Iran, 1794-1914, was published in 2015 by Routledge Press. In the late nineteenth century, Iran’s […]
Shayan Afshar <ormavi@gmail.com> has served as Associate Faculty at Arizona State University. He earned his PhD in Iranian and Persian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Areas of specialization include Persian literature, literary criticism, poetry and linguistics. His major publication is A Lexicon of Persian Infinitives (bilingual), 2nd ed. (Tehran: Morvarid Pub., 2017). Aspects […]
Arash Guitoo <guitoo@islam.uni-kiel.de> obtained a BA in Political Sciences from the University of Tehran and a BA in Judicial Sciences from Azad University of Tehran. He pursued Islamic Studies and European Ethnology at Christian-Albrechts-University (Kiel/Germany) where he earned his BA and MA He is currently a PhD candidate and Research Fellow in the Department […]
Mehdi Semati <msemati@niu.edu> is Professor and Acting Chair in the Department of Communication at Northern Illinois University. His writings on Iranian culture and media, and international communication have appeared in various scholarly journals. His books include Media, Culture and Society in Iran: Living with Globalization and the Islamic State (2008), and New Frontiers in International […]
Introduction A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Dokhtari dar shab tanhā be khāne miravad, 2014)[1] is tagged as the first Iranian vampire feminist romance. This debut feature by Anna Lily Amirpour is set in a fictional Iranian town, called Shahr-e Bad, The Bad City. The opening scene introduces the viewer to Arash, a James […]
Abbas Kiarostami has often been described as a ciné-poet, an artist who moves between the visual and the lyrical to create a cinematic experience that moves away from “understanding” and dwells in the abstracted space of poetic reflection. His visual poetry is very much linked to a slowness, and often a stillness, that gives time […]
A whole history remains to be written of spaces – which would at the same time be the history of powers… from the great strategies of geopolitics to the little tactics of the habitat. -Michel Foucault[1] In “Of Other Spaces: Heterotopias”, one of Michel Foucault’s later works, he argued for the importance of the spatiality […]
Besides the sheer magnificence and monumentalism of the unfolding 45-volume Encyclopaedia Iranica (EI), probably largest published single encompassment of a particular culture zone in the world, my occasional attempts to formulate Agendas for Persian Studies[1] look too personal and ad hoc. But I take heart that my ponderings have not been so hapless as to […]
Ecotheology of Sohrab Sepehri: Consciousness on the Edge of Water Bahar Davary University of San Diego Introduction In the context of discussing the poet Hafez, Hossein Ziai wrote: “Persian poetic wisdom (hikmat-i sha’iranah) is thought to continue the divine revelation by constructing a metalanguage of metaphor, allegory and symbol that transcends periods of historical time ….”[1] […]
