...Maryam Zehtabi Sabeti Moqaddam Abstract In Iran—as never before in the history of the country—prostitutes gained notorious visibility in twentieth-century Persian literature. Fixation on the image of the prostitute created a wealth of literature beginning in 1924 with the first Persian urban social...

... of similarity and alterity provokes anxieties about sexuality and racial modernity by seemingly disrupting the temporality of the present. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2024 Persian literature Persianate race sexuality Race against Time...

...Narges Montakhabi Bakhtvar; Hoda Niknezhad-Ferdos Abstract Women’s bodily experiences, radically stigmatized in Persian culture, have barely been approached in the literature of Iran. However, Rosa Jamali, an eminent postmodern poet in contemporary Iran, mobilizes her poetic palette...

... of young girls in Iran. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2024 child marriage Persian literature Iranian cinema child brides Child Marriage in Hitaw and M d¯ y n MARYAM ZEHTABI A B S T R A C T Child marriage, the union between...

... of Persian literature (200). 6. The symbolism of this tree has been discussed in relation to Katherine Anne Porter s 1930 short story Flowering Judas. Darlene Harbour Unrue (1985: 56) reads the tree as the symbol of betrayal, while A Study Guide for Katherine Anne Porter s Flowering Judas (Gale Group...

... 9 . Vafa Amirhossein . 2014 . “ On Literature and Worldliness: A Conversation with Mahmoud Dowlatabadi .” Ajam Media Collective . ajammc.com/2014/03/16/on-literature-and-worldliness . Vafa Amirhossein . 2016 . Recasting American and Persian Literatures: Local Histories...

... of inquiry. Motlagh fo- cuses exclusively on the literature of modern Iran, leaving the Persianate literatures of Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and other Persophone borderlands to other scholars. Her empirical focus generates a desire for a break in the Iranocentric account Persian literary modernity...

... on the historical and ongoing racialization of Indians, from Persianate and Islamicate texts to modern Iranian literature and media, Jabbari scrutinizes how their continued, anachronistic depictions characterized by a distinct physiognomy, language, and sexuality re ect Iran s complex engagement with modernity...

... Bedun-i Mardan . Stockholm : Baran . Rahimieh Nasrin . 2016 . Iranian Culture: Representation and Identity . New York : Routledge . Talattof Kamran . 2000 . The Politics of Writing in Iran: A History of Modern Persian Literature . Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press...

... almost exclusively to men. But beginning in the 1950s, a new tradition of writing by women emerged in Iran, and it was a development that would completely transform Persian literature in the space of half a century. Th at women are today a vital 106  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES 6:1...

... of Georg Krotkoff , edited by Afsaruddin Asma and Zahniser A. H. Mathias , 87 – 104 . Winona Lake, IN : Eisenbrauns . Talattof Kamran . 2000 . The Politics of Writing in Iran: A History of Modern Persian Literature . Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press . Tohidi...

...). This novel signified a great shift in Persian literature because it was the first social novel ever published in Iran. Tehran-e Makhuf is also one of the first novels with a female protagonist who is not a caricature of an exceptional wife, mother, or daughter. Yaghoobi reads this novel as a critique...

... .” International Studies: Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal 16 , no. 1 : 21 – 33 . Talattof Kamran . 2000 . The Politics of Writing in Iran: A History of Modern Persian Literature . Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press . Tensuan Theresa M. 2006 . “ Comic Visions...

..., received lessons in the Qur’an and religious stories, Persian and Arabic language, Persian literature, reading, writing, and perhaps some lim- ited instruction in European geography, history, and languages (Sheil 1973; Bamdad 1977, 71). Some upper-class girls received instruction in domestic science...

... of national threat in the nineteenth century; see Floor 2004:33. For images of prostitution in interwar Persian literature, see Nikitine 1954. 4. For prostitution and the law in the interwar period, see Schayegh 2004: 360–3. In June 1941, the Iranian Parliament passed a law for the prevention...

... seventh-century chronicles to the twentieth-century theatre, Baum is thorough in covering his sources. Th e slender book is divided into four sections titled “Persia in Late Antiquity,” “Chosroes II (590-628) and Shirin: Th e Persian Royal Couple,” “Th e Shirin Myth in Literature and Art...

... . Copyright © 2007 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2007 BOOK REVIEWS  119 Sohrabi, Naghmeh 2005 Signs Taken for Wonder: Nineteenth-Century Persian Travel Literature to Europe. Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University...

... of Persian-language television programs, articles and news reports, weblogs, and Facebook posts responding to Ermia reveals how a reality television contestant came to disturb simplistic but powerful binaries of modest/immodest, religious/secular, Iranian/Western, and national/diasporic as she combined...

... to move and settle in different parts of its extended domain, cosmopolitanism was taken for granted. With a Circassian mother—a freed slave—and a Turkish-speaking father, the aristocratic Taymurs used Persian as the language of literature and refinement and Arabic as the language...

...Nayereh Tohidi Copyright © 2017 by Kharmagas: Nashriyeh falsafi ejtemayi ( Gadfly: Persian Journal of Philosophy ) 2017 In 2015 I was asked to conduct an interview with Judith Butler by the editorial board of Kharmagas: Nashriyyih Falsafi-Ejtemaʿi ( Gadfly: Persian Journal of Philosophy...