I am writing in response to “Mourners in Common: Qassem Soleimani, Mohammad Reza Shajarian, and the ‘Pattern’ of Iranian Culture” by Peyman Eshaghi. I take issue with and question the credibility of any essay that ties Iranian cultural patterns organically not simply to nationalism, but, more si..
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Melancholia and the Possibility of a Geopolitics of Mourning
Nouri Gana, Signifying Loss: Toward a Poetics of Narrative Mourning. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2011.
In the preface to his recent book, Signifying Loss, Nouri Gana argues that “[i]n a worl..
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Reporters Without Borders: Mourning Mothers Spokesperson to be Jailed for 6 Months
[The following statement was issued by Reporters Without Borders on 17 January 2013.]
Reporters Without Borders is deeply concerned to learn that Mansoureh Behkish, a netizen and foun..
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