Debating the Iran-Iraq War in Contemporary Iran - Paperback

by Narges Bajoghli (Editor), Amir Moosavi (Editor)

This volume takes a fresh look at the legacy of the Iran-Iraq War in today. The chapters deal with social, political and cultural debates around the conflict that have emerged in Iran in the aftermath of the war. The chapters were originally published in Middle East Critique.

Author Biography

Narges Bajoghli is Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C., USA. She received her PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology from New York University. Her research focuses on pro-regime cultural producers in Iran, and is based on ethnographic research with Basij, Ansar-e Hezbollah and Revolutionary Guard media producers in Iran.

Amir Moosavi is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Rutgers University in Newark, USA. He received his PhD in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies from New York University in 2016. He then completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the Europe in the Middle East - the Middle East in Europe (EUME) program Berlin and a visiting assistant professorship in modern Iranian studies at Brown University. His research and teaching interests include modern Persian and Arabic literatures, war and cultural production and comparative cultural studies of the modern Middle East.