Authors

Babak Rahimi

ARTICLES BY Babak Rahimi

  • Abjection and Repair

    Abjection and Repair

    It is odd to begin an essay with a disclaimer, albeit a brief one. Yet I believe in this case it is necessary to do so. While a graduate student at the University of Chicago, Peyman Eshaghi co-edited a volume with me, entitled Muslim Pilgrimage in the Modern World (University of North C..

  • The Politics of Class and Culinary Consumption in Tehran

    The Politics of Class and Culinary Consumption in Tehran

    Contrary to a popular view that has become entrenched in media and certain academic trends, the emergence of luxury spaces is not about an all-inclusive Iranian desire for a better life in the all-too heroic act of cultural resistance, simplistically described as “lipstick jihad.” Rather, such s..