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Spring 2019: Iran

Iranian Cinema, Then and Now: An Interview with Blake Atwood and Pedram Partovi

Over the weekend of February 15–17, 2019, a symposium of about a dozen scholars convened at the University of Michigan to talk about the changes and challenges facing the field of Iranian Studies forty years after the Revolution of 1978–79. In addition to art, literature, historiography, and anthropology, the topic of cinema and media studies […]

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Over the weekend of February 15–17, 2019, a symposium of about a dozen scholars convened at the University of Michigan to talk about the changes and challenges facing the field of Iranian Studies forty years after the Revolution of 1978–79. In addition to art, literature, historiography, and anthropology, the topic of cinema and media studies

A Note From the Editor

It’s arguable that in 1971 the Shah of Iran himself ignited the revolution that overthrew his regime eight years later. In a week-long series of ostentatious, garish festivities, the Shah celebrated the 2,500th year of the Foundation of the Imperial State of Iran, an event no one thought relevant except himself. He commissioned the building

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It’s arguable that in 1971 the Shah of Iran himself ignited the revolution that overthrew his regime eight years later. In a week-long series of ostentatious, garish festivities, the Shah celebrated the 2,500th year of the Foundation of the Imperial State of Iran, an event no one thought relevant except himself. He commissioned the building

Finding Hope Amidst an Uncertain Economy: MQR Spring 2019 Cover Artist Mehdi Ghadyanloo at the 2019 World Economic Forum

Threatening objects that are suspended or held back; a mysterious door in a vast lake; a pedestrian bridge that leads to nowhere; an ocean trapped in a skewed room; a group of seemingly oblivious swimmers near a giant whirlpool in the sea; crowds of people trapped in uncertain situations; a lone Lego block-like tower in

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Threatening objects that are suspended or held back; a mysterious door in a vast lake; a pedestrian bridge that leads to nowhere; an ocean trapped in a skewed room; a group of seemingly oblivious swimmers near a giant whirlpool in the sea; crowds of people trapped in uncertain situations; a lone Lego block-like tower in

MQR Issue 57:6 | Spring 2019

Foreword Khaled Mattawa: A special Editor’s Note Forward Kathryn Babayan: After 1979: Literature from Iran and the Diaspora Nonfiction Salar Abdoh: Lies, Fame, Memory, Illness, and the Theater of Reza Abdoh Sandy Feinstein: Freestyle M.R. Ghanoonparvar: Displaced Entities, Shattered Identities, and the Loss of Paradise Mojgan Ghazirad: A Woman Warrior Mason Jabbari: Rolling a Boulder

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Foreword Khaled Mattawa: A special Editor’s Note Forward Kathryn Babayan: After 1979: Literature from Iran and the Diaspora Nonfiction Salar Abdoh: Lies, Fame, Memory, Illness, and the Theater of Reza Abdoh Sandy Feinstein: Freestyle M.R. Ghanoonparvar: Displaced Entities, Shattered Identities, and the Loss of Paradise Mojgan Ghazirad: A Woman Warrior Mason Jabbari: Rolling a Boulder

Meet Our Contributors, MQR Spring 2019, Special Issue on Iran

Purchase MQR 57:6 (Spring 2019) — our special issue on Iran — in print or as a downloadable PDF. ___________________________________________________________________________________ SALAR ABDOH |THE ALCOVE | translation, |LIES, FAME, MEMORY, ILLNESS, AND THE THEATER OF REZA ABDOH | essay, |BEDTIME | translation, |THE INGRID BERGMAN PRINCIPLE | translation SALAR ABDOH is the author of the novels The Poet Game, Opium,

Meet Our Contributors, MQR Spring 2019, Special Issue on Iran Read More »

Purchase MQR 57:6 (Spring 2019) — our special issue on Iran — in print or as a downloadable PDF. ___________________________________________________________________________________ SALAR ABDOH |THE ALCOVE | translation, |LIES, FAME, MEMORY, ILLNESS, AND THE THEATER OF REZA ABDOH | essay, |BEDTIME | translation, |THE INGRID BERGMAN PRINCIPLE | translation SALAR ABDOH is the author of the novels The Poet Game, Opium,

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