A Conversation with Dr. Claudia Yaghoobi on Transnational Culture in the Armenian Iranian Diaspora

Join us for a conversation (on zoom) with Professor Claudia Yaghoobi (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) in a discussion of her new book, "Transnational Culture in the Iranian Armenian Diaspora” on Wednesday, November 8th at 4:30 PM (PT). To register, follow this link bit.ly/Yaghoobi.

About the author: Navigating the intricate terrain of Armenian contributions to the Iranian nation-state, Professor Yaghoobi, herself of an Armenian-Iranian background, will share a much overlooked field of inquiry about Armenians and the ways they have contributed to the Iranian diaspora, as well as to Iranian culture.  

Claudia Yaghoobi is a Professor of Persian Studies and the director of the Center for the Middle East and Islamic Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Yaghoobi is a scholar of Iranian Cultural Studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies with a focus on the members of sexual, ethnic, and religious minoritized populations. She is the author of “Transnational Culture in the Iranian Armenian Diaspora” (Edinburgh UP 2023), “Temporary Marriage in Iran: Gender and Body Politics in Modern Persian Literature and Film” (Cambridge UP 2020), and “Subjectivity in ‘Attar, Persian Sufism, and European Mysticism” (Purdue UP 2017). She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 2013. She teaches courses on Iranian literature and culture, Middle Eastern literature, gender and sexuality, diaspora studies, and human rights.