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The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani

Behrouz Boochani Edited by Moones Mansoubi & Omid Tofighian, University of Sydney, Australia In this book, Behrouz Boochani's collected writings are combined with essays from experts on migration, refugee rights, politics, and literature� Together, they provide a moving, creative, and challenging account of not only one writer’s harrowing experience and inspiring resilience, but the wider structures of violence which hold thousands of human beings in a state of misery in migrant camps throughout the western hemisphere and beyond�

UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 336 pages HB 9780755642656 • £20�00 / $27�00 ePub 9780755642670 • £18�00 / $26�09 ePdf 9780755642663 • £18�00 / $26�09 Bloomsbury Academic

Iran at War

Interactions with the Modern World and the Struggle with Imperial Russia

Maziar Behrooz Qajar history has gone through much revision and distortion during the post-Qajar period� Some of the revisions are valid observations; however, distortions remain which need to be addressed to set the record straight� As a study of early Qajar history, this book is an attempt to revisit early nineteenth century Qajar Iran, address the historical fallacies, and create a new narrative and framework for better understanding this crucial period of Iran’s history� The late eighteenth and early nineteenth century was one of reunification of Iran under the Qajar and at the same time encounter with the modern European world through aggressive imperialism�

UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 224 pages PB 9780755637379 • £21�99 / $29�95 • HB 9781780766270 • £65�00 / $90�00 ePub 9780755637393 • £19�79 / $27�47 ePdf 9780755637386 • £19�79 / $27�47 I�B� Tauris

Iranian Culture in Bahram Beyzaie’s Cinema and Theatre

Paradigms of Being and Belonging (1959-1979)

Saeed Talajooy, University of St Andrews, UK This book examines the origins and development of Bahram Beyzaie’s unique sense of creativity, using an interdisciplinary method of semiotic and cultural analysis to identify its manifestations in Beyzaie’s films and plays of the 1960 and 1970s� It focusses on Beyzaie’s early works, such as Downpour and Uncle Moustache, and how they engage with neglected aspects of Iranian culture to challenge mainstream approaches to writing and directing plays and films. In this way, the author argues, Beyzaie’s work questions notions of being and belonging, by subverting exclusionist discourses on art, politics, society, culture, self and other, personal and collective identity, gender relations, intellectuals, heroes and villains, and children�

UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 288 pages • 45 bw illus HB 9780755648665 • £90�00 / $120�00 ePub 9780755648689 • £81�00 / $112�65 ePdf 9780755648672 • £81�00 / $112�65 I�B� Tauris

The Formation of Modern Kurdish Society in Iran

Modernity, Modernization and Social Change 1921-1979

Marouf Cabi Marouf Cabi argues that state-led modernisation integrated the Kurds in modern Iran, but the homogenisation of identity and culture also resulted in the Kurds’ vigorous pursuit of their political and cultural rights� Using Persian, Kurdish and English sources, the book explores the way the transformation of Kurdish society between the Second World War, 1979 Iranian Revolution and with a special focus on the era of the ‘White Revolution’, during the 1960s and 1970s, demonstrating the pursuit of Kurdish political and cultural rights within the entity has been a defining feature of the Kurds in Iran.

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 232 pages PB 9780755642281 • £28�99 / $39�95 Previously published in HB 9780755642243 ePub 9780755642267 • £76�50 / $105�78 ePdf 9780755642250 • £76�50 / $105�78 Series: Kurdish Studies • I�B� Tauris

Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran

Iconic Woman and Feminine Pioneer of New Persian Poetry

Edited by Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, University of Oxford, UK & Nasrin Rahimieh, University of California, Irvine, USA Farrokhzad embodied the vexed predicament of the contemporary Iranian woman, at once subjected to long-held traditional practices and influenced by newly introduced modern social sensibilities. Highlighting her literary and cinematic innovation, this volume examines the unique place Farrokhzad occupies in Iran, both among modern Persian poets in general and as an Iranian woman writer in particular. It is a fitting and authoritative tribute to the work of a remarkable woman, which introduces and explores her legacy for a 21st-century audience�

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 288 pages • 16 bw illus PB 9780755600670 • £19�99 / $26�95 ePub 9780755600687 • £17�99 / $24�72 ePdf 9780755600694 • £17�99 / $24�72 I�B� Tauris

Persian and Arabic Literary Communities in the Seventeenth Century

Migrant Poets between Arabia, Iran and India

James White, University of Oxford, UK Examines how the movement of authors created Arabic and Persian literary communities, sometimes running in parallel and sometimes intersecting, which linked Iran, India and the Arabian Peninsula in a system of exchange� Delving into a wealth of 17th century literature, James White illuminates how human mobility made the poetry and prose of this period into an interconnected corpus, where writers used cognate forms, imagery and rhetoric to connect with one another across vast distances� The book focuses on six case studies to demonstrate that migration was multidirectional and multilingual, and connects these findings to material philology.

UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 256 pages HB 9780755644568 • £85�00 / $115�00 ePub 9780755644582 • £76�50 / $105�78 ePdf 9780755644575 • £76�50 / $105�78 Series: IBT Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Persian Literature • I�B� Tauris