The celebrated and beloved fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafez continues to play an essential role... more

Ahmad Mahmoud sets The Neighbors against the backdrop of the oil nationalization crisis that gripped... more

. Ghanoonparvar observes at the outset of this book, "every translation is inevitably a failure, with occasional moments of success...... more

A very engaging saga... Washington Post Book World A powerfully resonant work... Publishers Weekly O... more

"Like all revolutions, this one too has led to a regime more despotic than the one it replaced." So ... more

Celebrated Iranian novelist Ghazeleh Alizadeh’s The House of the Edrisis is a novel deeply rooted in... more

Women writers occupy prominent positions in late 20th century Iranian literature, despite the increa... more

. Ghanoonparvar s exquisite translation remedies this oversight and expands the body of literature on the Iran-Iraq War available to...... more

Examines modernist Persian literature as an artistic record of the eventful history of Iranian socie... more