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Tracing the ‘Sensible Transcendental’: Forough Farrokhzad and the Question of Female Subjectivity

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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 […]

From Mehrin Negar to Tara: The Evolution of Female Protagonists in Bahram Beyzaie’s “The Snake King” (1966) and “The Ballad of Tara” (1978-9)

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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 […]

Khorasan: an Untapped Linguistic Area of Iran

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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: […]

Zīb al-Nisā (d. 1702): A “Hidden” Poetess at the Mughal Court

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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 […]

Reading Forugh Farrokhzad’s Poems Poetically

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Michael Craig Hillmann, Independent Scholar   Abstract: “Reading Forugh Farrokhzād’s Poems Poetically,” consisting of PowerPoint slides and commentary for Zoom presentation, offers a cursory appreciation of specific features in a handful of poems. Obviously, scores of interesting and insightful articles on Farrokhzad’s poems are out there, but not many of them involve close readings of […]

Desire, Power and Agency: Iranian Female Poets Reading their Poems before the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic

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Bio: Mahdi Tourage is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Social Justice and Peace Studies at King’s University College, London, Ontario. He is the author of Rumi and the Hermeneutics of Eroticism (Brill 2007) and the edited volume Esoteric Lacan (with Philipp Valentini, Roman & Littlefield 2019). His publications have appeared in Iranian Studies, International […]

Corpus-based Approaches to the Typology of Iranian Languages

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Geoffrey Haig is professor of linguistics in the Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Bamberg. His research is empirically oriented, with a focus on corpus-based approaches to language typology, and language contact in the Western Asian Transition Zone; for both fields he has co-developed online digital resources (see https://multicast.aspra.uni-bamberg. de/ and https://multicast.aspra.uni-bamberg.de/resources/wowa/. He has also […]

New Iranian Horror: Theorizing an Emerging Trend in Iranian Cinema

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Farshid Kazemi. Simon Fraser Universiy Bio: Farshid Kazemi is Sessional Lecturer at the School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University. He holds a PhD in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Edinburgh with a thesis on Iranian Cinema and Psychoanalysis. His research interests combine an interdisciplinary and theoretical approach to Film […]

Underground: The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran

Blake Atwood American University of Beirut Kaveh Askari Michigan State University Golbarg Rekabtalaei Seton Hall University   Abstract: For over a decade, videocassettes were officially banned in Iran. But even analog media technologies like the videocassette are surprisingly difficult to control. Rather than curtain the circulation of videocassettes, the ban inspired a vibrant video-based movie […]

“Salaam Mumbai”: Pasts and Presents of Exchange and Collaboration Between Indian and Iranian Cinemas

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Bio: Dr. Claire Cooley is a postdoctoral fellow at Tufts University. Her research and teaching focus on film and media industries in the Global South, South-South media flows, Sound Studies, and Critical Infrastructure Studies. Her work has appeared in a range of publications including Film History, Jump Cut, and Spectator. Her current book project tells […]