Recent Releases


Things I’ve Been Silent About
Azar Nafisi Lecture & Book Signing - LAPL (January 14, 2009)
Azar Nafisi talks about her new book - FORA TV (January 12, 2009)
Azar Nafisi tells of her struggles with both mother and country - CS Monitor (Janurary 9, 2009)
Interview with Azar Nafisi - Barnes & Noble Review (Janurary 5, 2009)
Reading Mom and Dad in Tehran - NY Times (Janurary 2, 2009)
Azar Nafisi's 'Things I've Been Silent About' - SF Chronicle (December 28, 2008)
Azar Nafisi (Official Site)
Things I've Been Silent About (Random House)
Reading Lolita in Tehran Reviews


Passionate Uprisings
Pardis Mahdavi talks about "Iran's Sexual Revolution" - UCLA (November 19, 2008)
Pardis Mahdavi (FORA TV)
Stolen Kisses: Iran's Sexual Revolutions (The Nation)
Book Review (Gozaar)
Pardis Mahdavi (Pomona College)
Passionate Uprisings Iran's Sexual Revolution (Stanford U. Press)


Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies
Barbara Slavin Lecture & Interview - UCLA (February 14, 2008)
BookTV Interview by Trita Parsi
An Interview With Iranian Expert and Journalist Barbara Slavin - Intrepid Liberal Journal (October 21, 2007)
Barbara Slavin (USA Today)
Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies (St. Martin's Press)


Jasmine and Stars
Dr. Fatemeh Keshavarz Lecture & Interview - UCLA (December 11, 2007)
The Fragrance of Local Color (October 28, 2007)
Celebrating Human Lives - Electric Politics Podcast (September 14, 2007)
Jasmine and Stars - ZNET (August 03, 2007)
Sharing the Spirit of Iran - WUSTL (Fall 2007)
The UNC Press


Caspian Rain
Gina Nahai Booksigning & Discussion - Pasadena (September 9, 2007)
Iranian Jewish life is the focus of "Caspian Rain" - Chicago Tribune (September 8, 2007)
Saving It Up For the Page - PW (June 4, 2007)
Caspian Rain
Faculty Page (USC)
Gina Nahai (Official Site)


My Name is Iran
Davar Ardalan's Discussion & Booksigning - USC (January 16, 2007)
Between Two Worlds: 'My Name Is Iran' - NPR (January 9, 2007)
A Woman Called Iran, a Refuge Called America - NY Times (January 5, 2007)
Ardalan Tells Story of U.S.-Iranian Tensions - Women's Enews (December 28, 2006)
Davar Ardalan: My Name Is Iran (January 2007/Holtzbrinke Publishers)
Series Chronicles Personal Journey, Struggle for Change in Iran (NPR)
Davar Ardalan, NPR Biography
American RadioWorks
Official Site


Echoes in Exile
Sheema Kalbasi Reading & Interview (April 12, 2007)
Official Site
PRA Publishing
Press Release
Seven Valleys of Love: A Bilingual Anthology of Women Poets
Sheema Kalbasi (Blog)


Chicken with Plums
Marjane Satrapi Lecture & Booksigning - Gallery (November 2, 2006)
Marjane Satrapi: Princess of darkness - The Independent (October 5, 2006)
Without his music, life isn't worth living 'Persepolis' author's latest is fiction, not autobiography - San Francisco Chronicle (October 1, 2006)
Chicken with Plums (Panteon Books)


Hidden Iran
Dr. Ray Takeyh Lecture & Interview (May 2, 2007)
All Things Considered - NPR (September 14, 2006)
Dealing with Iran - The Economist (August 31, 2006)
Bio
Hidden Iran (CFR)

Iran Awakening
Shirin Ebadi Lecture and Booksigning - Gallery (May 15, 2006)
Ebadi travels throughout U.S. promoting her memoir - Washington File (May 10, 2006)
An Iranian profile in courage - CS Monitor (May 9, 2006)
Iran's uneasy hero - San Francisco Chronicle (May 7, 2006)
Newshour Interview - Video (May 5, 2006)
Nobel Laureate Ebadi Looks at Iran's Contradictions - NPR (May 3, 2006)
The complete review's Review
Gallery I | Galley II | Gallery III
Iranian human rights activist sues the US
Iran Awakening (Shirin Ebadi/Azadeh Moaveni) - Random House
Shirin Ebadi's Bio
Facts
Press Release
Official Site


Uncensored Iranian Voices
Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh - Real Audio (April 20, 2006)
Uncensored Iranian Voices - C-SPAN Video 01:42 (April 19, 2006)
Interview - PBS (April 14, 2006)
The complete review's Review
Beacon Press
PR

Let Me Tell You Where I’ve Been
University of Arkansas Press
Jasmin Darznik Review
Persis Karim (Official Site)
Readings Schedule
PR



Warring Souls
Duke Press
Roxanne Varzi (UCI)
PR




My Uncle Napoleon
The secret garden - The Guardian (May 13, 2006)
"My Uncle Napoleon": Something funny is going on in Tehran - Seatle Times (May 5, 2006)
My Uncle Napoleon - Iraj Pezeshkzad/Dick Davis (Random House)
PR
Iraj Pezeshkzad - Gallery I | Gallery II | Gallery III | Gallery IV
Dr. Dick Davis (OSU)

Jumping Over Fire & Persian Girls
Nahid Rachin Reading and Booksigning - LA (November 14, 2006)
Nahid Rachlin - Gallery (March 12, 2006)
Interview with Nahid Rachlin - Real Audio (March 10, 2006)
Persian Girls
Trapped in Tehran, Liberated in St. Louis (NPR Review)
Nahid Rachlin (Official Site)
Praise for Jumping Over Fire
Interview with Nahid Rachlin, author of Jumping Over Fire | Excerpt
City Lights Publishers

Cracked Pomegranate
Novelist chronicles struggles of Iranian women to find seeds of a new life - San Francisco Chronicle (November 7, 2005)
PR
Regent Press
Official Site

The Pursuit of Pleasure
Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500-1900 (Princeton University Press)
Rudi Matthee (U. Delaware)
Dr. Rudi Matthee Lecture & Booksigning at UCLA - Gallery (October 23, 2005)
History of Pleasure in Iran - BBC Persian (October 17, 2005)

The Soul of Iran
Excerpt
Afshin Molavi Bio & Recent Articles
WW Norton

Living in Hell
Book Review - Global Politician (January 1, 2006)
Author uses writing as therapeutic tool - Nsnews (August 19, 2005)
A woman's journey back from hell - Richmond News (August 8, 2005)
An Interview with Ghazal Omid (Audio)
PR
Ghazal Omid (Official Site)

Foucault and the Iranian Revolution
Dr. Janet Afary & Dr. Kevin Anderson Lecture - Gallery (April 29, 2006)
The "other" Orientalism - Frontline (December 2005)
Book Review - Democratiya (September-October 2005)
The philosopher and the ayatollah - The Boston Globe (June 12, 2005)
Revisiting Foucault and the Iranian Revolution
Excerpt
University of Chicago Press

Pomegranate Soup
Pomegranate Soup (Random House)
Marsha Mehran (Random House)
Press Release
Interview (Real Audio)
The Story Behind the Story & Q&A
Marsha Mehran (Official Site)

Lipstick Jihad
Azadeh Moaveni at the LA Times Book Fair - Gallery (April 23, 2005)
Another Country - The Nation (April 14, 2005)
A cultural bridge between Iran, US - Boston Globe (April 11, 2005)
Interview with KCET - Audio (March 25, 2005)
Azadeh Moaveni reads from Lipstick Jihad - Picture Gallery (March 23, 2005)
Azadeh Moaveni speech at San Jose Public Library - Audio (March 17, 2005)
Orphans of the Revolution - Washington Post (March 17, 2005)
Lipstick and political resistance - San Francisco Chronicle (March 13, 2005)
'Lipstick Jihad': The Mullahs and Me - NY Times (March 12, 2005)
As if the Mullahs Were All Young at Heart - NY Times (February 25, 2005)
Foreign Exchange Interview (Video) | Transcript
An Interview With Azadeh Moaveni
A Q&A with Azadeh Moaveni the author of Lipstick Jihad
Official Site
Lipstick Jihad (Public Affairs) | PR

Even After All This Time
Afschineh Latifi at the LA Times Book Fair - Gallery (April 23, 2005)
Love, revolution, and leaving Iran - MSNBC Video (March 31, 2005)
Women write about the Iran they know - USA Today (March 30, 2005)
Interview (Audio)
Interview with Afschineh Latifi
Press Release

Strange Times My Dear
Strange Times Live, Los Angeles - September 10, 2005
Official Site (Arcade Publishing)
OFAC Press Clips
Ahmad Karimi Hakkak Book Signing Event - Los Angeles (May 28, 2005)
PEN American Center
Press Release

No God but God
'No god but God': The War Within Islam - NY Times (May 29, 2005)
Author Aslan on the Evolution of Islam - NPR (May 13, 2005)
The Jihad Is a Civil War, the West Only a Bystander - NY Times (May 4, 2005)
Review: No god but God - Blogscritics (April 25, 2005) | Interview
Reza Aslan book signing - Gallery (April 13, 2005)
Interview with Reza Aslan (April 8, 2005)
Writer Reza Aslan, 'No God but God' - NPR (March 23, 2005)
Press Release (Random House) | About the author
No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam (Random House)

In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs
Rule By Rigor Mortis - Business Week (February 25, 2005)
'In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs': Reflections on Iran - NY Times (February 13, 2005)
A Mosaic of Iran, Its Radical Past and Its Fading Hope - NY Times (February 3, 2005)
First Chapter: 'In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs' (NY Times)
Picture Gallery
Press Release
Official Site

An Enduring Love
'An Enduring Love': The Last Empress - New York Times (May 2, 2004)
An Interview with Farah Pahlavi - NPR (March 6, 2004)
Iran's Queen in Exile Finds 'a Way to Go On' - Washington Post (March 5, 2004)
A Life in Exile - NY Times (February 29, 2004)
Memoirs of Farah Pahlavi - BBC Persian (February 28, 2004)
Interviews in English | French

The Persian Puzzle
The Middle East Quarterly Book Rview (Fall 2005)
Foreign Affairs Book Review (March/April 2005)
An Interview With Kenneth Pollack - MotherJones (January 24, 2005)
The Persian puzzle, or the CIA's? - Asia Times (December 3, 2004)
Another Threatening Storm? - Washington Post (November 28, 2004)
Random House
PR

Persepolis
Lifting the veil on an Iranian Sex and the City - Telegraph (June 19, 2005)
An Interview with Marjane Satrapi - Bookslut (October 2004)
A Child of the Iranian Revolution Gets Graphic With Bush - Village Voice (September 16, 2004)
She Can't Go Home Again: Persepolis 2 - New York Times (August 22, 2004)
Veiled threat - The Guardian (December 12,2003)
Marjane Satrapi dessine la vie de l'Iran - Le Monde (June 24, 2003)
Beneath A Drawn Veil - Time Europe (June 3, 2003)
Illustrator Marjane Satrapi - NPR (June 2, 2003)
Rebel in exile - The Guardian (May 15, 2003)
'Persepolis': A Graphic Novel Recalls the Iranian Revolution - NY Times (May 11, 2003)
Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi (Complete Review)
Persepolis 2 (Random House)
Persepolis (Random House)
Marjane Satrapi (Le Café Littéraire)
auteur: Satrapi (BDnet)
PERSEPOLIS: The Story of a Childhood - by Marjane Satrapi (Press Release)
Official Site

Journey from the Land of No
An Iranian Jew's Tales of the Revolution - Washington Post (September 28, 2004)
Interview: An Iranian writer recalls her youth in 'the Land of No' (BookPage)
Journey from the Land of No (Random House)
Coming of Age in the Shadow of a revolution (PR)
A conversation with Roya Hakakian
Roya Hakakian (Offical Site)
Book Reviews

Reading Lolita in Tehran
Literature and History: A talk by author Azar Nafisi (January 31, 2007)
Azar Nafisi: Women, Culture, Human Rights: The Case of Iran (April 20, 2005)
Azar Nafisi Webcast - LOC (October 9, 2004)
Author Finds That With Fame Comes Image Management - NY Times (June 8, 2004)
A revolutionary idea - The Scotsman (March 7, 2004)
Iranian rebel made room for 'Lolita' - San Francisco Chronicle (February 2, 2004)
Moving stories: Azar Nafisi - BBC (January 2, 2004)
Through the veil - The Guardian (September 13, 2003)
Summer Reading: Author Azar Nafisi - NPR (August 10 , 2003)
Reading Lolita in Tehran makes its London debut - BBC Persian (June 26, 2003)
Interviews Azar Nafisi - PBS (June 20, 2003)
The Fiction of Life - The Atlantic (May 7, 2003)
Reading Lolita in Tehran - WBUR (May 5, 2003)
Interview with Azar Nafisi - Charlie Rose Show (April 18, 2003)
Professor and Writer Azar Nafisi - NPR (April 4, 2003)
Reading Lolita in Tehran (Random House)
Official Site

Funny in Farsi
Firoozeh Dumas - Gallery (November 7, 2005)
Commentary: 'Funny in Farsi' - NPR (April 20, 2004)
Comedy of growing up unveiled - CS Monitor (July 10, 2003)
Firoozeh Dumas - BBC Persian (June 28, 2003)
Firoozeh Dumas Commentary - NPR (March 10, 2003)
Funny in Farsi (Random House)

Persian Pilgrimages
Persian Pilgrimages: Journeys Across Iran. Afshin Molavi - Foreign Affairs (January/February 2003)
Iran Expert Afshin Molavi Sees Iranians Yearning to Speak and Listen - Eurasianet (October 24, 2002)
Iranian mysteries unravelled - Telegraph (December 14, 2002)
'Persian Pilgrimages' - NPR (October 16, 2002)
Persian Pilgrimages (W.W. Norton)

In the Walled Gardens
In the Walled Gardens: A Novel by Anahita Firouz
"In the Walled Gardens" by Anahita Firouz - Mostlyfiction (August 11, 2002)
Anahita Firouz (Bookreporter)
Anahita Firouz (Official Site)

Novelists
Gelareh Asayesh
Nassim Assefi
Afsan Azadi
Mort Baharloo
Tara Bahrampour
Majeed Beenteha
Simin Daneshvar Bio
Camelia Entekhabifard
Sattareh Farman Farmaian
Farnaz Fassihi
Sholeh Furutan Wolpé (Poetry)
Zarah Ghahramani
Farideh Goldin
Soheila Ghodstinat
Farkhondeh Hajizadeh
Zara Houshmand
Esther Kamkar
Abbas Kazerooni
Laleh Khadivi
Porochista Khakpour | Interview
Mehrnoush Mazarei
Shokooh Mirzadegi
Jacqueline Mirsadeghi (Photography)
Melody Moezzi
Taghi Modarressi
Farnoosh Moshiri | NPR Audio
Gina Nahai
Bahiyyih Nakhjavani
Susanne Pari | NPR Audio
Zoya Pirzad
Shahrnush Parsipur | Gallery
Amanda Roraback (Iran in a Nutshell)
Ata Servati
Maryam Tabibzadeh
Niloufar Talebi
Goli Taraghi
Mehri Yalfani

Genre in the Service of Empire

Scholars
Janet Afary: Sexual Politics in Modern Iran
Ali Ansari: Confronting Iran
Mojdedh Bayat: Tales from the Land of the Sufis
Mehrzad Boroujerdi: Iranian Intellectuals and the West
Hamid Dabashi: Iran: A People Interrupted
Homa Katouzian & Hossein Shahidi: Iran in the 21st Century
Fatemeh Keshavarz: Jasmine and Stars | Interview & Lecture
Pardis Mahdavi: Passionate Uprisings Iran's Sexual Revolution | Interview
Abbas Milani: Eminent Persians | Book Signing & Discussion
Abbas Milani: The Persian Sphinx
Farzaneh Milani: Veils and Words: The Emerging Voices of Iranian Women Writers
Minoo Moallem: Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister
Valentine M Moghadam: Globalizing Women
Negar Mottahedeh: Displaced Allegories: Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema
Trita Parsi: Treacherous Alliance
Massoume Price: Iran's Diverse Peoples | Ancient Iran
Nasrin Rahimieh: Missing Persians Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural History
Prof. John Tehranian: Whitewashed: America's Invisible Middle-Eastern Minority
Nayereh Tohidi: Globalization, Gender, and Religion: The Politics of Women's Rights in Catholic and Muslim Contexts

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