Entries by ایران نامگ

Racial Profiling of Iranian Armenians in the United States: Omid Fallahazad’s “Citizen Vartgez”

 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 […]

Foucault and Epicureanism of the Iranian Revolution

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 […]

Queering the Iranian Nation: Be Like Others and Resistance to Heteronormative Nationalism

  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 […]

An Approach to Humour in Persian Literature

  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 […]

Culture and Democracy

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 […]

Reflection of India in the Works of Hedayat

  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 […]

What is at the Heart of the Dispute? Reflections on the Foucault Controversy Forty Years Later

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 […]

Transition from Orient to the Third World: Sketch of a Phenomenological Study of a Historical Fall

  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 […]

The Western Problematic and the Idea of Everyday Culture and Life in the Post-Revolutionary Iran

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 […]

Desacralizing a Sacred Defense: The Iran–Iraq War in the Fiction of Hossein Mortezaeian Abkenar

  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 […]

Iranian Conditions: Metaphors of Illness in Iranian Fiction and Film

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 […]

Divorce as Seen through Women’s Cinematic Lens

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 […]

In Memoriam: Heshmat Moayyad, 1927-2018

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 […]

Reading Lolita in Persian

  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 […]

European Racial Thought, Iranian Nationalists, and Theories of Arab Invasion and Decline

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 […]

Kamal Khojandi, Reza Quli Khan Hedayat, and Muhammad Hashim Asef Rustam al-Hukama

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 […]