Final archive trip of the DPhil write-up. What a beauty it is too! The National Archives

Seems that just like PhD students, British consular workers in Iran occasionally could not be bothered to translate a whole newspaper article.

Personal news 🛫 Am off to Boston after the weekend to start as a Junior Research Fellow Brandeis University's Crown Center for Middle East Studies. Looking forward to learning with new colleagues and acquiring an odd accent. I'll be a stranger in a strange land so hmu if you're in town! ☘️

Boston people! I'll be teaching a class on Iranian Jewish political and literary activism Lehrhaus on 25th Jan. Do come along for a space to reflect on Zionism, diaspora, and Jewish politics in a unique context. lehr.haus/classes/poets-…

🎉A huge congratulations to the winners of the 2024 Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize: - Joint Winners: Tiba Bonyad (Tiba.Bonyad) and Morad Moazami (Morad) - Joint Runners Up: Daniel Amir (Daniel Amir) and Passent Moussa Read more: brismes.ac.uk/awards/ldmp (1/3)

✨New publication✨ My article 'Reading Bialik in Tehran' is online now The Jewish Quarterly Review! It's about how Jews in Iran related to Hebrew literature and their own Iranian nationalism after the Second World War. Give it a read! muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article…

Crown Center Fellow Daniel Amir has a new article out in the Jewish Quarterly Review. You can find "Reading Bialik in Tehran" at: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article…

JQR 114.3 is out with an array of fascinating articles! -Cairo Geniza fragments that illuminate the Noahide commandments -A parallel reading of Michel Foucault and Franz Rosenzweig -Other essays ranging from medieval philosophy to 20th c. lit. Read more: katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/blog…

Israeli public broadcasting's new Persian programming opens with the perfect stumble: امروز پنجشنبه ۲۲ شهریور ۱۴۰۳... برابر با ... תשע... תשיעי ... نهم ماه الول سال ۵۷۸۴ عبریست. Bodes well. Always been too many calendars and languages to juggle. kan.org.il/content/kan/ka…

The lovely people The Jewish Quarterly Review have produced a short blog on my article about Iranian Jewish literature and politics in the 1940s. Have a read of it or check out the full article here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article…

I have the privilege of discussing my research at Cornell next week, do come along if you're in the area!

TONIGHT, 5pm "The Modern Iranian Jew: Marginal, Political, Revolutionary, " lecture with Daniel Amir events.cornell.edu/event/lecture-… CornellArts&Sciences Cornell University Near Eastern Studies Cornell Society for the Humanities @EinaudiCenter