... . 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...

...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...

...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...

... imagination. Moreover, the Indian is temporally out of place and appears as a specter of the premodern Persianate past shared by Iran and India, haunting the modern, nationalist present. After examining racialized depictions of Indians in premodern Persianate texts, the article considers the raced, sexualized...

... Dowlatabadi and Saniee occupy in the Persian literary field, both Missing Soluch and My Share reflect the ethos of the 1979 Revolution in some way, one its euphoric beginning and the other its complicated aftermath. The article argues that both novelists pursue an innovative genre of historical writing...

... opportunities for women. Primary sources include major Persian-language biographies that have appeared in Iran over the last thirty years and research from two fieldwork trips. Amin received these ijaza certificates in response to her hadith collection, Arbaʿin Hashimiyya , her first commentary in Arabic...

..., content, and organization of these schools. The study is based primarily on the memoirs of Iranian educators, the writings of foreign observers in Iran active in Iranian education circles, and Persian-language press sources. Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi is Assistant Professor of History at California State...

... 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...

... can minimize important culturally bound elements of Daneshvar’s and Parsipur’s feminist awareness and agency, it provides an example with relevance for critical translation studies. The limited and oppressive nature of Persian derogatory, sexist, and insulting labels in the original texts...

... of Persian 140  mn  Journal of Middle East women’s studies  9:3 literary studies, which for the most part does not seriously consider the social or gendered construction of the Iranian self. Amy Motlagh’s read- ing of Iranian modernist prose (both novels and short-stories) against...

... engages with numerous dimensions of the novel, such as identity, gender, language, literary discourse, global recognition, and marginality. For example, Omid Azadibougar (2014: 200) demonstrates that Pirzad s aesthetic discourse in Chiraghha borrows from the rich history of Persian popular romance...

... their communities and across the generations. Soomekh reiterates throughout the book that “Jewishness” shapes all three generations of women. And, as important as national and cultural identity (Persian, Iranian and/or Iranian- American) are to these women, that common thread is a more tenuous...

... 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...

..., Farangopolis, in Persian and English in December 2004 and participated in two group weblogs, No War on Iran and Iranians for Peace. My participation in forming these two group weblogs introduced me to more bloggers and soon I became a “resident” of Weblogistan, forging several online...

... and Twitter, using multilingual hashtags in Persian, English, and French. “My stealthy freedom” and “White Wednesdays” are the brainchildren of the Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad, a women’s rights journalist and activist living under self-imposed exile in the United States since 2009. The banner...

... 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...

.... In contemporary scholarship in the West, they have often been separated through colonial logic and academic boundary making. Iran ends up in the “Middle East” and Afghanistan in “South Asia” or “Central Asia.” This article takes the lead of historians reinvigorating a study of the “Persianate world” (Kia 2020...

... to attend the women-only parks rather than the mixed parks, and what advantages or disadvantages they saw in having women-only spaces, such as the Mothers’ Paradise. I also observed how women interacted in the segregated spaces. After each visit, I wrote field notes in Persian, which I...

... by Motlagh ought to be taken up with respect to other parts of the Persianate world, including Central Asia and Afghanistan. Motlagh’s literary acumen and conceptual powers make her perspective all the more needful and relevant to the entire Persianate ecumene. Her study of Iranian...