A classic of modern Persian literature, 'Charand-o Parand' (or 'Stuff and Nonsense') is a work familiar to every literate Iranian. Originally a series of newspa

A classic of Modern Persian literature, Charand-o Parand (Stuff and Nonsense) is a work familiar to every literate Iranian. Originally a series of newspaper col

A masterfully researched and compelling history of Iran from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first

This book shows how Persianate poetics and communist internationalism brought together 20th-century writers from across Eurasia.

Following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, there was a dramatic reversal of women's rights, and the state revived many premodern social conventions through modern m