Rethinking History: Can Inshāʾ Literature Compensate for the Lack of Archives in Medieval Iran?

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]