Abstract In this conversation, Essmat Sophie (author of the novel and animation film Dancing
Amid Fire, Rising Above Ruins), talks with Wendelmoet Hamelink (researcher on gender …

Abstract In this article Houzan Mahmoud (editor of the book Kurdish Women's Stories,
published in 2021), talks with Wendelmoet Hamelink (researcher on gender, migration …

ABSTRACT In 2020, Ghada Alatrash and Najat Abed Alsamad noted that,'Historically
Syrians have written and spoken about exile in their literature, long before the Syrian war …

In writing in an oppressive situation where authors are denied freedom of speech and
literary expression, Parsipur chooses an intellectual existence in exile while attempting to …

Women Write Iran is the first full-length study on life narratives by Iranian women in the
diaspora. Nima Naghibi investigates auto/biographical narratives across genres—including …

Abstract Writing Outside the Veil is the first full-length study of Iranian immigrant literature.
The phenomenal success of Azar Nafisi? s 2002 memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran, followed …

This essay seeks to introduce the US political concept 'rogue state'to a postcolonial studies
attuned to western military and other interventions in the Middle East. It traces the cultural …

This paper analyzes modern Kurdish poetry under the rubric of female writers from Southern
Kurdistan, in the period spanning 1990 to 2009. After decades of suppression, Kurdish …

Abstract In The Septembers of Shiraz (2007) Dalia Sofer paints a picture of the Jews of Iran
that critiques the archival and memorial, and interrogates the relation between art and terror …

378 Biography vol. 40, no. 2, Spring 2017 chapter," Claiming Neda," opens with the 2009
elections and a thorough ex amination of Neda s death as well as the viral spread of her …