Conversation and Connections with Amir Moosavi

Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice-Rutgers Newark

ISGRJ at Rutgers-Newark presents "Conversation & Connections" with Amir Moosavi: Contaminated Marshes & Headless Palms

Rutgers University-Newark

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The Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers University-Newark proudly presents "Conversation and Connections" series with the next Fall 2023 lecture presentation with Amir Moosavi, Assistant Professor in the English Department at Rutgers University-Newark. His presentation will be on Contaminated Marshes and Headless Palms: the Environment and the Ghosts of War in Contemporary Arabic and Persian Fiction of the Iran-Iraq War.Lunch will be provided for all registered attendees.About the Presenter:Amir Moosavi is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Rutgers University-Newark. He holds a PhD in Middle East and Islamic studies from New York University. His research and teaching interests center around Arabic and Persian literatures, with a focus on modern and contemporary fiction. His publications have appeared in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, Middle East Critique, Alif, and Iran Namag, among other venues. In 2021, he co-edited Losing Our Minds, Coming to Our Senses: Sensory Readings of Persian Literature and Culture (Leiden UP, 2021). During his fellowship year with ISGRJ he will complete his book manuscript titled Dust That Never Settled: Afterlives of the Iran-Iraq War in Arabic and Persian Literatures and two articles related to a second project on cultural representations of the late Cold War era in the Middle East.

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