This course is for students who have minimal or no prior knowledge of Persian focusing on reading, writing and conversation. Students start by learning how to write and pronounce the sound and …
Introductory Persian
This course is for students who have minimal or no prior knowledge of Persian focusing on reading, writing and conversation. Students start by learning how to write and pronounce the sound and …
Iranian Modernity
This course explores competing conceptions of Iranian modernity within a comparative historical framework on “multiple modernities.” A major theme is the exploration of the temporality and historicity …
Old Persian
This course will survey the language, main epigraphical texts, historical context, and political ideology of the Old Persian inscriptions of the Achaemenid Empire (550–330 BCE). The Old Persian …
Iranian Modernity
This course explores competing conceptions of Iranian modernity within a comparative historical framework on “multiple modernities.” A major theme is the exploration of the temporality and historicity …
Anthropology of the Middle East
This course aims to familiarize students with the anthropological study of the contemporary Middle East. It introduces key questions and concepts for anthropological study: who speaks for the Middle …