Lessons of Towfigh

The International Reception of Iranian Cinema, 2000-2013

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Dr. Anne Démy-Geroe teaches Asia Pacific cinema at Griffith University. An inaugural member of the Nominations Council for the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, a Vice President of NETPAC, and a […]

Forugh Farrokhzad, Modernity and Madness

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Dr. Leila Rahimi Bahmany is a research fellow and lecturer of the Persian language at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Iranian women’s literature and feminist literary theories are her […]

Rakhshan Banietemad’s Social Realism

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Maryam Ghorbankarimi is a lecturer in film practice at Lancaster University. She completed her Ph.D. in film studies at the University of Edinburgh in 2012 and her dissertation was published […]

Shame, Stigma and Sin: From Tahirih, to Forugh, to Us

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Sholeh Wolpé is an Iranian-bon poet, playwright and librettist. About her poems, the Poetry Foundation writes, “Wolpé’s concise, unflinching, and often wry free verse explores violence, culture, and gender.” Named […]

Sonia Balassanian: Writing the lmpossible

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Claudia Yaghoobi is a Roshan Institute Associate Professor in Persian Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of Temporary Marriage in Iran: Gender and […]

Pioneer Female Directors, Writers and Producers in Iranian Cinema

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Khatereh Sheibani is a researcher of Iranian cinema and Persian literature. She has established Persian studies at York University, Canada, where she is currently teaching courses on Persian literature and […]

Women Depicting Freedom of Movement in Iranian Cinema

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Professor Nacim Pak-Shiraz is Personal Chair in Cinema and Iran, and Head of the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh. She has published in […]

Women Poets: Gendered Personhood and Displacement

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Dr. Fatemeh Shams is a specialist in Persian literature. She earned her Ph.D in Oriental Studies from University of Oxford, Wadham College. Before joining Penn, she taught Persian language and […]

Anthologies of Persian(ate) Poetry by Women

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Sunil Sharma is a professor of Persianate and comparative literature at Boston University. His areas of expertise are Persian and South Asian literatures, and his research interests include poetry and […]