Guest Speakers: Rabbi David Shofet, Professor Ahmad Karimi Hakkak, Dr. Shirzad Abrams, Dr. Ardeshir Babaknia Hosted by: Dr. Sa'id & Mrs. Jila Rahban
Zuzanna Olszewska is an associate professor in the social anthropology of the Middle East at the University of Oxford. She specializes in the ethnography of Iran and Afghanistan, with a focus on Afghan refugees in Iran, the Persian-speaking Afghan diaspora, and the anthropology of literature and cultural production. She received her doctorate in social anthropology […]
Zahra Khosroshahi is a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto working on Iranian cinema. She is currently working on her forthcoming monograph Iranian Women Filmmakers: A Cinema of Resistance (Edinburgh University Press). Zahra’s research explores how the visual medium challenges systems of power, and how filmmaking specifically functions as a form of resistance […]
Ali Mirsepassi is Albert Gallatin Research Excellence Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University. He is Director, Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies and also director of Iranian Studies Initiative at NYU. Mirsepassi was a 2009-2007 Carnegie Scholar and is the co-editor, with Arshin Adib- Moghadam, of The Global Middle East, […]
Niloofar Haeri is Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University and the Program Chair in Islamic Studies. She is a Guggenheim Fellow and has written on Egypt and Iran. Her most recent book (2021), Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Praver & Poetry in Iran (Stanford University Press), is the 2021 recipient of the […]
"Tainted Veil" revisits the question of desire and the making of poetic subjectivity in the Persianate literary archives of South Asia. It examines the nom de plume, life and poetry of Dagh Dehlvi, Munni Bai Hiiab and Mir Yar Ali Khan "an Sahib" in the Persianate milieu of nineteenth-century Delhi, Rampur, Calcutta and Hyderabad. The […]
Simin Karimi with a 1989 Ph.D. in theoretical linguistics from the University of Washington in Seattle, Simin Karimi is currently a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. She served as the department head in 2011-2016 and the interim department head in 2007. In addition, she has been the Chair of […]
Ahoo Najafian is Assistant Professor of Religion at Macalester College where she teaches on Islam, gender, arts, and literature. Her research focuses on the intersection of religion. literature, and politics in Iran and intellectual history of the related concepts. She is working on a manuscript, titled Poetic Nation: Iranian Soul and Historical Continuity, on the […]
Dr. Mahrokhsadat Hosseini is a research associate at the University of Sussex. Iranian women's poetry, gender studies and feminist literary theories, in particular French feminism are her main fields of research. She has benefited from Luce Irigaray's extraordinary expertise and subsequent feedback in her seminars where selected postgraduate researchers work in collaboration with her each […]
Saeed Talajooy is Assistant Professor in Persian at the University of St Andrews. Talajooy has taught and published on literature, drama and cinema in Iran and the Ok. and is currently teaching comparative literature and Persian modules on Iranian drama cinema, son and literature traditions. His research is on the point of convergence between cultural […]
Mohammad Dabir-Moghaddam received his PhD in linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1982. He is a professor of linguistics in Allameh Tabataba'i University (Tehran) and is also a permanent member of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature. He is the author of many of articles and the following books: Theoretical Linguistics: […]
Pegah Shahbaz is currently a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy the Asian Institute, an Associate Member of the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur l'Inde, l'Asie du Sud et sa Diaspora (CERIAS) at The Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and the Section Editor […]