Author name: Nahid Siamdoust

MODERN IRAN IN 8 SONGS From classical melodies to rap, Iran’s music reveals its long struggle for political freedom: http://stanfordpress.typepad.com/blog/2017/05/modern-iran-in-8-songs.html

The photograph series “Listen” by my dear friend Newsha Tavakolian is highlighted in this article. Maral Afsharian from Newsha’s photo series is on the cover of Soundtrack of the Revolution. I also mention her in my book in conjunction with her music, as well as her participation in what the state media called a Satanic Party …

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http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=24949 You can purchase it here: https://www.amazon.com/Soundtrack-Revolution-Politics-Stanford-Studies/dp/1503600327/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1486749957&sr=8-1&keywords=siamdoust

Please come hear my talk if you’re in the city!

I am absolutely elated that after winning the Brismes Award, my dissertation has also won the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award in the Humanities. The award ceremony was held at MESA in D.C. on Sunday, 23 November, and it was wonderful to celebrate with my supervisor Dr. Walter Armbrust and …

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So pleased that my dissertation “Iran’s Troubled Tunes: Music as Politics in the Islamic Republic” was chosen as a joint-winner of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies 2014 Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize for the best PhD dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic in the Humanities or the Social Sciences. And even more pleased with …

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One of Iran’s greatest poets, Simin Behbahani, died today at 87. She was fierce, called a ‘lioness’ by Iranians. I saw her at the forefront of demonstrations for women’s rights at the One Million Signatures gatherings in the mid-2000s – always with her bright red lipstick. Especially in the last decades, her poems chronicled Iranian …

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