Naghmeh sohrabi biography templates

Naghmeh Sohrabi (Charles (Corky) Goodman Professor of Middle East History, Brandeis University)

May 2, 2023

Revolutions topple governments and usher in political transformation. They raise people’s hopes while disrupting existing power dynamics and social equilibria. In just over 100 years, the Middle East has witnessed the demise of empires, the establishment of nation-states, and power-vying between competing ideological and political camps. Throughout the region, revolutionaries have ended monarchies and proclaimed republics, and ousted tyrants and replaced them with a wide range of secular and theocratic alternatives.

Led by Naghmeh Sohrabi, professor of Middle East history and president of the Association for Iranian Studies, and co-presented by Primary Source and the National Humanities Center, this webinar explores the modern history of revolutions in the Middle East.

Webinar Resources

Before the live webinar please be sure to review the available materials in the webinar resource folder. Use the code provided in your registration email to access these resources.

• Bayat, Asef. “Revolutions of Wrong Times.” In Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring, 1–27. Stanford Studies in Middl

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  Writing Uprising as Hypothesize Women Mattered

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Signs Taken for Wonder: Nineteenth Century Persian Travel Literature to Europe

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PhD dissertation

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My dissertation, Signs taken for Wonder: Nineteenth Century Persian Travel Literature to Europe is a re-examination of the significance of Persian travel narratives to Europe for Qajar Iran (1796–1925). Through textual and contextual analysis of Qajar travel accounts to Europe, I have demonstrated the ways in which Qajar historiography's focus on travelogues as sites of Europe is a result of an anticipatory history that reads the nineteenth century in light of later developments that the historical actors themselves could not have foreseen. This has led to the omission of certain nineteenth century travelogues from the historiography and also blinded historians to other interpretive possibilities of these texts, specifically the ways in which they narrate Qajar Imperial power, reveal changes in the writing culture of Iran in the nineteenth century, and demonstrate the state's growing interest in geographical knowledge.

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