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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Leila Sadegh Beigi received her PhD in English literature from the University of Arkansas, where she is an instructor of literature. Her writing focuses on the intersection of gender, exile, and translation in contemporary Iranian women’s literature. Her recent publications include “Simin Daneshvar and Shahrnush Parsipur in Translation: The Risk of Erasure of Domestic Violence […]
Ehsan Sheikholharam is a teaching fellow and a PhD candidate in the Department of Religious Studies at UNC Chapel Hill. Situated at the intersection of architecture and religion, his work examines the religiosity of non-religious architecture. Beyond his primary focus on the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, his research spans interrogations of ideologies of public […]
Leila Moayeri Pazargadi is an associate professor of English at Nevada State College, teaching composition, postcolonial literature, life writing, and Middle Eastern literature. She received her PhD in comparative literature with a certification in gender studies from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2012. Her research focuses on Middle Eastern women writers producing autobiographical material in […]
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 […]
