Firoozeh kashani-sabet biography
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Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet
"A Nation in Turmoil, A Field in Crisis: The Upshots of Woman, Life, Freedom"
International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2024
By now, it is well known that the murder of the Kurdish woman, Jina Mahsa Amini, last fall sparke... more By now, it is well known that the murder of the Kurdish woman, Jina Mahsa Amini, last fall sparked nationwide protests in Iran. Aside from Jina, many other young protestors were killed, imprisoned, or permanently disabled, as security forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran began blinding demonstrators by firing rubber bullets at their eyes. 1 These ghastly scenes were accompanied by other disturbing and violent acts that included the raiding of universities, sexual abuse of students, targeting of minority populations, and shockingly the execution of young men for their involvement in these fracases. 2 The Woman, Life, Freedom (Persian: Zan, Zendegi, Azadi; WLF) uprising, which erupted in response to gender discrimination in the Islamic Republic, promptly embraced other social causes. What began as gender protests amplified people's strident cries against political repression in Iran. Despite raising awareness of a range of sociopolitical problems in Iran, the gender focus of this movement remains its singul
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Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet
American-Iranian historian
Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet | |
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| Born | Tehran, Iran |
| Education | B.A., 1989, University slow North Carolina at Service Hill M.A., M.Phil., Phd, Yale University |
| Thesis | Frontier Fictions: Incline, Culture, give orders to Shaping representation Iranian Land, 1804-1946 (1997) |
| Institutions | University type Pennsylvania |
| Main interests | Iranian-Afghan relations, Iraqi-Iranian relations, Contemporary Islam |
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Career
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Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet
Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History
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Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet received her B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was a Morehead Scholar. She completed her M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in history at Yale University. Her book, Frontier Fictions: Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804-1946(Princeton University Press, 1999) analyzes the significance of land and border disputes to the process of identity and nation formation, as well as to cultural production, in Iran and its borderlands. It pays specific attention to Iran's shared boundaries with the Ottoman Empire (later Iraq and Turkey), Central Asia, Afghanistan, and the Persian Gulf region. Her book was translated into Persian by Kitabsara Press, Tehran, Iran and has been released in paperback by Princeton in 2011. The Turkish translation of this book was published by Istanbul Bilgi University Press. To read about the impact of her work as a “locus classicus” when it was first written, see the following study by renowned Iranologist, the late Dr. Bert G. Fragner.
Kashani-Sabet’s article, “Fragile Frontiers