Claudia Yaghoobi: Transnational Culture in the Iranian Armenian Diaspora

Join host, Yasamin Jameh, in learning about Claudia Yaghoobi’s new book, Transnational Culture in the Iranian Armenian Diaspora (2023).  
The 37th episode of Parse is an excerpt from Professor Claudia Yaghoobi’s book launch at the Institute, titled Transnational Culture in the Iranian Armenian Diaspora. Her book studies the ways diasporic Iranian Armenian authors and artists negotiate their identities as a minoritized population within a liminal space that includes religious, ethnic, national, cultural, and gender factors. 
Yaghoobi argues that this liminal state of fluidity allow Iranian Armenians to move beyond national boundaries yet simultaneously display the collective Armenian identity characterized by flexibility, adaptability, and continuity as a result of multiple uprooting and the Armenian Genocide. 
 
Claudia Yaghoobi is a Roshan Institute Professor and the director of the Center for the Middle East and Islamic Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of Transnational Culture in the Iranian Armenian Diaspora (published in 2023), Temporary Marriage in Iran: Gender and Body Politics in Modern Persian Literature and Film (published in 2020), and Subjectivity in ‘Attar, Persian Sufism, and European Mysticism (published in 2017). 
 
To watch the whole lecture, click here: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF8zKZJXTbM&t=889s⁠