I started working on Zoya Pirzad’s stories and novel in 2012 and published two articles on her works. But it was not until 2018—when I was invited to present on the contributions of Iranian Armenians to the Iran-Iraq war efforts at the Association of Iranian St..
Claudia Yaghoobi
Claudia Yaghoobi is a Professor of Persian Studies and the director of the Center for the Middle East and Islamic Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Yaghoobi is a scholar of Iranian cultural studies and gender and sexuality studies with a focus on the members of sexual, ethnic, and religious minoritized populations. She is the author of Transnational Culture in the Iranian Armenian Diaspora (Edinburgh UP, 2023), Temporary Marriage in Iran:Gender and Body Politics in Modern Persian Literature and Film (Cambridge UP, 2020), and Subjectivity in ‘Attar, Persian Sufism, and European Mysticism (Purdue UP, 2017). She is also the editor of the volume The #MeToo Movement in Iran: Reporting Sexual Violence and Harassment (Bloomsbury/IB Tauris, 2023). She received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 2013.