Molla Nasreddin

Janet Afary is Mellichamp Chair and Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara. She is author of Sexual Politics in Modern Iran (Cambridge University Press, 2009) (Winner of the British Society for Middle East Studies-British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize), Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism (with Kevin B. Anderson) (University of Chicago Press, 2005) (Winner of Latifeh Yarshater Award: Best Book in Iranian Women’s Studies-Persian Heritage Foundation) and The Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1906-11: Grassroots Democracy, Social Democracy, and the Origins of Feminism (Columbia University Press, 1996).

Kamran Afary is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at California State University, Los Angeles. He is co-editor (with A. Marianne Fritz,) of Communication Research on Expressive Arts and Narrative as Forms of Healing: More than Words (Rowman & Littlefield Publishing, 2020) and co-author (with Shirazi, Ziba) of Iranian Diaspora Identities: Stories and Songs (Rowman & Littlefield Publishing, 2020).