#GlobalLIT_ERC compares literary theory & poetics (balagha) in Arabic, Persian, Turkic @ERC_Research funded @SOAS @rrgould and @transmodern1. Also on BlueSky.
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We're proud to publish Anna Learn's excellent and in-depth review of a new anthology of Afghan women poems: Hair on Fire: Afghan Women Poets, published by @TwoLinesPress
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David Durand-Guédy’s “A Letter from Iran to Celebrate the Reconquest of Jerusalem. The Khwārazm-Shāh’s tahniyat-nāma to Saladin, Copied in the inshāʾ Work Qiṣṣa-yi salāṭīn (Mid-13th Century)”
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On Tuesday, we open the doors to the first library established amidst the genocide in Gaza. 📚
Thank you all for your support.❤️
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Delighted to share that Arabic, Persian, and Turkic Poetics: Towards a Post-Eurocentric Literary Theory (published by @OxUniPress & @BritishAcademy_) has been shortlisted for the @EuroCompLit Excellence Award for Collaborative Research.
ESCL Excellence Award for Collaborative Research 2026
Shortlist Announcement!
escl-selc.eu/2026/04/05/escl…
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📝 In this new wide-ranging Q&A, @attfield_betty speaks to @rrgould (Distinguished Research Professor of Comparative Poetics and Global Politics @SOAS) about academic freedom and the quiet erosion of democracy.
Rebecca reflects on why relying only on dominant, often colonial, narratives needs to be questioned. She discusses the courage it takes to speak out on conviction, the personal and professional costs of doing so, and how academic freedom is far more fragile than we like to believe.
Read Rebecca's full Q&A here ⬇️ buff.ly/KTkBcoT
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'Corpo Aureo', esposizione site-specific di Maziar Mokhtari - Notizie - Ansa.it ansa.it/campania/notizie/202…
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Check out our new blog post from @rrgould on Ibn Faḍlān’s Mission to the Volga, Michael Crichton's Eaters of the Dead, and The 13th Warrior!
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"I have started to hate the mirror. The mirror doesn’t lie, and it doesn’t know the meaning of solidarity or empathy. Whenever I stand in front of it, I see myself slowly disappearing."
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Our chapter—"The Translatability of Love: The Romance Genre and the Prismatic Reception of Jane Eyre in Twentieth-Century Iran"—co-authored with @rrgould, has won the 2025 Article Prize from The Nineteenth Century Studies Association @NCSAscholars!
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Issue 3/1 of #EncountersinTranslation is out! Featuring articles by Julie Boéri & @MonaBaker11 @eivinden Aisha Maniar & Duncan Poupard. As per our multilingual policy long synopses available in many languages inc Turkish Arabic Chinese Korean French Spanish Italian Norwegian etc
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Vacancies!
Now that our #exzellenzcluster will keep going for at least another seven years (🥳), we are seeking numerous doctoral and postdoctoral researchers to work on written artefacts across materials, periods and regions within our collaborative team:
uhh.de/csmc-uwa-ii
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“GeoHumanities” is AAG’s newest journal for publishing interdisciplinary scholarship, featuring scholarly articles and shorter creative pieces that cross between the academy and creative practice.
Learn more about how to submit and access our articles: buff.ly/pEpGtOH
ALT Cover of the journal "GeoHumanities"
ALT Description of the journal, when it is published, and the two editors-in-chief.
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✨This piece is just a snapshot of our exhibition that will explore #sculpture, #architecture, and the memory of #Zoroastrian cosmology- but on a bigger scale!
🎨From 17 July to 21 September, the @SoasGallery will host Cosmos, Memory, Scale
👉soas.ac.uk/about/event/cosmo… @SOAS
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Just one more week until this exciting event on contemporary #Arabic and #Persian #GraphicDesign we're having together with @mkghamburg! The workshops are almost booked out but registration for the conference is still open
uhh.de/csmc-shifting-scripts
You can also participate online!
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Kayvan Tahmasebian turns Persian poetry into a global conversation: “[...]how can a translator tap into the revolutionary or transformative potential of a text across times and places? It’s about the potential for instigating change.” bit.ly/3CtzxHh
Kayvan Tahmasebian’s @Transmodern1 review of Samuel Hodgkin's formidable Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism (2024) @CambridgeUP This is the first review of the book.
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And now, another review of mine:
Aria Fani, Reading across Borders: Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism | Iranian Studies | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/4h6Vnzh
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Thrilled to share my interview with @samdapanas7 for @asymptotejrnl, where we discuss Persian poetry and activist translation. Read it here:
asymptotejournal.com/blog/20….
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My review is out:
Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism. Samuel Hodgkin (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2024) | International Journal of Middle East Studies | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/40bmRgm