Lessons of Towfigh

Laudan Nooshin is Professor of Music at City, University London, UK. She is an active researcher working in the broad field of Iranian music and sound studies. She has published books and articles on Iranian classical, popular and film music, and is currently writing a volume on the sounds of Tehran (supported by a Fellowship […]

Professor Asghar Seyed-Gohrab is the new chair of Iranian and Persian studies at Utrecht University. Central to Seyed-Gohrab’s research is the study of medieval Persian poetry (both secular and religious) and its reception in the modern world, examining how medieval poetry, mystical concepts, and philosophical notions are deployed in modern Iranian politics, in popular culture, […]

Pedram Partovi, an associate professor of history at American University, is a historian of the medieval and modern Muslim world. His current research focuses on the history of youth movements and their role in creating and disrupting the political order in Iran and the wider Middle East. He previously held a visiting professor position in […]

Farzaneh Milani completed her graduate studies in comparative literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her dissertation, “Forugh Farrokhzad: A Feminist Perspective,” is a critical study of the poetry of a pioneering Iranian poet. A past president of the Association of Middle Eastern Women Studies in America, Milani was the recipient of an All […]