As his students attest, every session in Professor Peter J. Chelkowski's classes is a memorable event. This has consistently been the case throughout his long, distinguished career. He is often described by his students as a superb teacher who has mastery...

NOTE: Also available in Kindle format at lower price. 1- Click on "Select Format" 2- Select "eBook Download" 3- Select "AMAZON KINDLE" "Madatolhayat" is one of the few pre-twentieth century Persian culinary sources...

The topic of this book revolves around the four words that appear in its title, namely disease, dying, death, and trauma. Each chapter explores not only the above mentioned themes, but also questions of identity, loss of homeland, unrequited love and broken...

This book is an examination of modern Persian literature from its inception in the first decade of the 20th century to the present from a variety of perspectives, including within the context of the sociopolitical events and upheavals in the past 120 years as...

The most internationally recognized Persian fiction writer in the 20th century, Sadeq Hedayat (1903-1951), was known as a secular intellectual whose controversial views on religion gained him both distractors and supporters in Iran, both during his life and...

Every city has its own identity. In the same way that the identity of the people of a city influences and determines the identity of a city, the identity of a city has an impact on that of its people. In this book, the author explores the major cities of Iran...

This volume is a collection of 10 plays written in the 1960's and 1970's in Iran, when the Persian theater is considered to have come of age. Their significance lies partly in their depiction of aspects of Iranian society and life during those decades when...

In this book, Prof. M. R. Ghanoonparvar explores the differences between the narrative strategies of Iranian filmmakers and modernist Persian fiction writers. While most published studies on Iranian cinema and Persian fiction focus either on literature or on...

For more than four decades, Professor Gernot Ludwig Windfuhr has been a pillar of Iranian Studies in the United States. His extensive publications in several fields and the number of scholars he has trained alone attest to his highly-regarded status and...

The cuisine of every nation provides a means of celebrating its culture, and this volume, the most comprehensive collection of recipes of Persian culinary arts, represents a celebration of several thousand years of Persian heritage and civilization. Persian...