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Claudia Yaghoobi is Roshan Institute Associate Professor in Persian Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received her PhD in comparative literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2013. She is the author of Temporary Marriage in Iran: Gender and Body Politics in Modern Iranian Literature and Film (Cambridge […]
Aria Fani is an assistant professor of Persian and Iranian studies at the University of Washington. He earned a BA in comparative literature from San Diego State University and a PhD in Near Eastern Studies from UC Berkeley. In addition to research and teaching, he engages in social advocacy for asylum seekers in the United States. […]
Mazyar Lotfalian <mazyar.lotfalian@gmail.com>is a scholar of the anthropology of science, technology, and media. He is engaged in public space policy debates and the role that arts play in urban revitalization. After the events of 9/11, the Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf released his film, Kandahar. Just in time after the US invasion of Afghanistan, New Yorkers […]
Yadullah Shahibzadeh <yad79@hotmail.com> took his Bachelor, Master and PhD from the University of Oslo. He taught and researched at the same university for many years. Shahibzadeh is author of The Iranian Political Language: From the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present (2015), and Islamism and Post-Islamism in Iran: An Intellectual History (2016). He expects to publish his new book, Marxism and […]
Dedicated to the life-affirming work of Maryam Khatoon Molkara (1950-2012) Introduction Tanaz Eshaghian’s 2008 documentary Be Like Others simultaneously messages entrenched stereotypes about the Islamic Republic of Iran, but also moves beyond a cursory exploration about the life of trans Iranians living in the present-day country. The film offers the viewer opportunities for […]
Homa Katouzian is the Iran Heritage Foundation Research Fellow, St Antony’s College, and Member, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford. He is editor, International Journal of Persian Literature and co-editor, the AIS-Routledge book series in Iranian studies. In the eleven hundred years of literature in Persian, humour has been quite visible and has […]
دموکراسی یا حقیقت محصول بحث‌هایی بود که طی اقامتم در ایران و حین تدریس در دانشکدة علوم اجتماعی دانشگاه تهران در سال 1378 با روشنفکران، استادان و دانشجویان داشتم. هر چند این کتاب اولین اثری بود که از من در ایران به چاپ می‌رسید، خوشبختانه مباحث کتاب با نقد و بررسی‌های مفیدی روبه‌رو شد و […]
Nadeem Akhtar obtained his PhD in Persian literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University. His area of research is Sadegh Hedayat. He has authored a book on Hedayat in India titled Hedayat dar Hindustan (Cheshmeh, 2017), written various research articles and papers for journals and magazines in India and abroad, and contributed an entry to the […]
Dr. Kevin W. Gray <kevinwgray@gmail.com> is a visiting scholar at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, and a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. He was previously Assistant Professor of International Studies at the American University of Sharjah and director of its Gulf Studies Centre. His monograph, The Birth and Death of Legal […]
Daryoush Ashouri has studied at the Faculty of Law, Political Science, and Economics of the University of Tehran. He has worked extensively as author, essayist, translator, encyclopedist, and lexicologist. His main concern is with cultural and linguistic matters of his motherland as a Third World country encountering modernity. He is author, compiler, and translator […]
پیش‌درآمد با پایان جنگ هشت ساله و درگذشت آیت‌الله خمینی، دگرگونی بنیادینی در فضای زیست روزمرۀ ایرانیان پدید آمد. دولت پس از جنگ ، در رویارویی با واقعیت‌های اقتصادی-سیاسی و خسارت‌های سنگین بر جای مانده، نیازمند برخوردی عمل‌گرایانه‌تر و مبتنی بر نفع متقابل با جریان‌های سرمایه‌ای بین‌المللی بود. مذاکرات ایران با بانک جهانی اندکی پس […]
Amir Moosavi is an assistant professor of comparative literature in the Department of English at Rutgers University–Newark. His research and teaching interests cover modern Arabic and Persian literatures, with an emphasis on Iran, Iraq, and the Levant, as well as the cultural history of the modern Middle East. His articles have appeared in Alif, Middle […]
Babak Elahi <bxegsl@rit.edu> teaches in the School of Communication at Rochester Institute of Technology. He holds a Ph.D. in American literature from the University of Rochester. His work has been published in Iranian Studies; Alif; Middle Eastern Literatures; Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East; MELUS, International Journal of Fashion Studies, and […]
درآمد وضعیت زنان و برخورد قانون با آنها از جمله بحث‌برانگیزترین و نکوهیده‌ترین پیامدهای انقلاب 1357 به شمار می‌آیند. استقرار حکومتی مبتنی بر جمهوری اسلامی با هدف احیای ارزش‌هایی اسلامی‌ایرانی -که ادعا می‌شد بر اثر تلاش‌های صورت‌گرفته برای تقلید از غرب در ایرانِ پیش از انقلاب از میان رفته‌اند– تقریباً در همۀ عرصه‌های زندگی و […]
Shervin Emami is a lecturer in Persian language and literature in the Stanford Language Center and a faculty member of the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies at Stanford University. Her research is on “Persian Contemporary Magical Realism through the Lens of Allegorical and Mystical Writings in Persian Classical Literature,” and she […]
Franklin D. Lewis <flewis@uchicago.edu> is an Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature, and Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. My friend, mentor and Doktorvater, Heshmat Moayyad passed away on Monday 25 June 2018 in Northbrook, Illinois, at the age of 90. Heshmatollah Moayyad Sanandaji began […]
Paul Sprachman taught English at the University of Isfahan, worked as a researcher at Columbia University, and taught Middle Eastern studies and Persian at Rutgers University. Sprachman is the translator of numerous works from Persian to English including A Man of Many Worlds: The Memoirs of Dr. Ghasem Ghani (Mage, 2006); Journey to Heading […]
مقدمه حكام سلسلۀ قاجار (ح. 1175-1304ش/1796-1925م) در اوايل قرن نوزدهم خود را با دشمن جديدي رويارو ديدند: امپرياليسم اروپايي. جنگ‌هاي 1218-1228ق/1804-1813م و 1241-1243ق/1826-1828م ايران و روسيه، كشمكش‌هاي متعدد با بريتانيا و مداخلات بعدي استراتژيست‌هاي امپراتوري‌هاي بريتانيا و روسيه در امور مملكتي -كه با عنوان ”بازي بزرگ“ از آن ياد مي‌شود- خواب نخبگان ايران را كه […]
رستم التواريخ كتابي است كه رخدادها و حكايت‌هاي دوره‌اي پُرتنش از تاريخ ايران، از پادشاهي شاه سلطان‌حسين صفوي تا ميانۀ قاجارها، را با آهنگي تند و پُرشتاب روايت مي‌كند و خواننده را بي‌اختيار با خود به اين سوي و آن سوي مي‌كشاند و لحظه‌اي به ذهن او قرار نمي‌دهد. مهار روايت چنين كتابي و دست […]
