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Iranian Studies
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Assistant Professor, Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Professorship in Persian and Iranian Studies, Director of Persian and Iranian Studies Program -
Affiliate Assistant Professor
News
- New Minors for Students in NELC (August 18, 2021)
- 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)
Research
- “What Is Literature? The Rise of a Global Literary Discourse” (Mandarin Chinese title: 文学是什么?一种全球性文学话语的兴起), Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures (2021): 42-49. Learn more
- 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