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Aria Fani

Assistant to the Director of Persian and Iranian Studies Program, Assistant Professor

Nowruz 2020: A Message from NELC - PISP (March 20, 2020)
NELC Major Noah Gruenert Broadcasts in Persian on Radio Iranshahr (January 14, 2020)
NEW Assistant Professor in Persian and Iranian Studies: Aria Fani (September 5, 2019)
5th year of cooperation with the NELC-PISP Iranian Film Initiative at SIFF and films from our region at the Festival (May 6, 2019)
Nowruz at UW (April 30, 2019)
Ancient Iran Day 2018 (April 21, 2019)
Afrassiabi Lecture 2019: Lior Sternfield on Iranian Jews in the Twentieth Centry (April 21, 2019)
Ryan Robinson Chose NELC for "Incredible Professors and Fascinating Classes" (June 26, 2018)
May 12-13: Writing the Iranian Revolution: Memory, Testimony, Time (April 13, 2017)
Afrassiabi Endowed Lecture Feb. 11th - Books From Bombay (January 11, 2017)
Samad Alavi Reviews Born Upon the Dark Spear: Selected Poems of Ahmad Shamlu (January 3, 2017)

Aria Fani, "Iran’s Literary Becoming: Zokaʾ ol-Molk Forughi and the Literary History That Wasn’t," Iran Namag 5.3 (2020), pp. 114-144. Learn more
Alavi, Samad. "Iranian Culture: Representation and Identity." Iranian Studies 49, no. 6 (November 2016): 1099-1103. Learn more
Widlake, Sean, "Mohammad Mosaddeq and the Referendum: Iran and the Exception in the Cold War" (2015). Thesis. Learn more
Samad Alavi, "Living in Lyric: The Task of Translating a Modernist Ghazal" in Persian Language, Literature and Culture: New Leaves, Fresh Looks, ed. Kamran Talattof, Routledge, 2015. Learn more