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

Why were urban women veiled in the early 1900s, unveiled from 1936 to 1979, and reveiled after the 1979 revolution? This question forms the basis of Hamideh Sed

Alive and Kicking ‎This collection of twenty short stories by ten leading Iranian ‎women writers introduces many of them to English-speaking ‎audiences fo

Does the study of aesthetics have tangible effects in the real world? Does examining the work of diaspora writers and artists change our view of “the Other”

he current political climate of confrontation between Islamist regimes and Western governments has resulted in the proliferation of essentialist perceptions of