Armenian Communities of the Northeastern Mediterranean is the fourteenth volume to be published in the UCLA series, Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces. Even though the northeastern reaches of the Mediterranean Sea were not a part of historic Greater...

Part fiction, part memoirs, this collection of stories by an insider sheds new light on the main actors of the Iranian Revolution of 1979. The title story in The Arrest of Hoveyda, Stories of the Iranian Revolution is a narrative in the distinct voices of...

“The tearoom scene which met my eye looked like a page out of a book whose figures came to life as we approached, for the women were wearing the old-fashioned clothes of Arabia, pantaloons and long overdresses with high collars fastened by gold studs on...

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Although traditionally, writing memoirs, as this genre is understood in the Western world, especially women’s memoirs, has been relatively rare in Persian, since the latter years of the 20th century, an increasing number of women from various classes...

Affectionately known as Moh among colleagues and friends, Mohammad Reza Ghanoonpoarvar has been a prominent figure in the field of Persian language and literature for the past thirty years. He is credited with pioneering work in the interpretation and...

Contemporary Iranian Photography edited by Abbas Daneshvari offers five essays with interpretive comments on the photography of post-1980s Iran, including the emerging style and concepts of the field. The authors note that this art has shown unprecedented...

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...

The word-origin of the term caviar has been a subject of Western scholarly curiosity as late as the mid-18th century. The lexical evidence of the term’s existence as hāvyār and khāviār in the Ottoman Turkish language dates back to...

Gharbzadegi [Weststruckness] is a tour de force on social conditions in Iran. It was written in 1962 when the Pahlavi regime seemed to have control over Iran's destiny. For the author, Al-e Ahmad (1923-1969), the result was total national submission to...