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In “Why the Left Has So Little Traction in Iran,” I described how many Iranians who are critical of the Islamic Republic and seek a different social and political order experience its anti-imperialism as inseparable from the corruption and...
My article, “Epistemic Translation of Modernity: Negotiating Science and Technology under Semi-Colonial Conditions,” is officially out in the July 2026 issue of Comparative Studies in Society and History—Volume 68, Number 3. It has been ava...
Image: @dailyworkerhistoryfarsi, Instagram, accessed July 5, 2026.
At a moment when Iran still stands near the edge of war, it may seem almost like a luxury to ask why the Left has so little traction in Iranian society. The destruction and...
I have a new essay out. It begins with my father teaching me chess while Persian music played in the background, and ends with me humming a 1960s song to a foggy Berlin window without having decided to.
Parvin’s 1960s recording of Mehdi A...
Image: “In Memory of Marjane Satrapi,” by Roshi Rouzbehani.
When Marjane Satrapi passed away on June 4—tragic, unexpected, and far too soon—the tributes to Persepolis were accompanied by a critique that has followed the book for years: a d...
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A historian who drinks too much coffee and thinks about society through its complaints (a.k.a. political thought) alongside literature and popular culture.
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