Persis M Karim
Biographic Data
| ID | 416823 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Persis M Karim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Persis M |
| FAMILY NAME | Karim |
| SIGNATURE | KARIM P M |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Francisco State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Two Poems from Shadow and Light
Two Poems from Shadow and LightPart of the Al-Mutannabi Street Starts Here Project Persis Karim (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 32] Shadow and Light was instigated by San Francisco Bay Area poet and activist Beau Beausoleil as part of a recent ancillary project of Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here (to learn more about this project, see WLT, Sept. 2013, 72). Al-Mutanabbi Street St…
Abacus of Loss
Abacus of Loss: A Memoir in Verse by Sholeh Wolpé Persis Karim Sholeh Wolpé Abacus of Loss: A Memoir in Verse Fayetteville. University of Arkansas Press. 2022. 124 pages. ON THE OPENING page of her newest collection, Abacus of Loss: A Memoir in Verse, Iranian-born poet Sholeh Wolpé shares an image of a classic abacus. Below it is the statement: “The abacus is an instrument of remembering.” But unlike the ancient abacus, Wolpé’s abacus does not ca…
Moving from the Margin toward the Center
Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies - Volume 5, Number 2, 2018
Moon Brow
World Literature in Review FICTION Shahriar Mandanipour Moon Brow Trans. Sara Khalili. Brooklyn. Restless Books. 2018. 452 pages. It would be an understatement to call Moon Brow, the latest novel by Shahriar Mandanipour (translated from Persian by Sara Khalili), anything but “world literature .” Moon Brow is both an Iranian novel and an example of the present global context that enables and, in Mandanipour’s case, forces literature to cross bound…
Iranian Diaspora Kuku
WORLDLIT.ORG 63 F or me, kuku is a symbol of the Iranian diaspora kitchen. Some people make it with dill weed, some use cilantro, some use more eggs, some use walnuts instead of almonds. There are many variations of this Iranian national dish, but regardless it is a staple of Persian cooking; it is a vegetarian dish distinguished by its mix of herbs and greens cooked with eggs (for binding) and is served as both an appetizer or as part of a meal.…
We Carry Home within Us
60 WLT SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 2017 P ersis Karim, a poet and the editor of three anthologies of Iranian diaspora literature, is the Neda Nobari Chair of the newly established Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies at San Francisco State University. In her new position , Karim is in the unique position to provide institutional recognition for the emerging field of Iranian diaspora studies—an extension of her long career of editing and promoting Iranian Am…
Writing Beyond Iran
Despite the losses that have come with leaving behind their homeland, their society, and their reading audiences, Iranian writers in exile have also creatively overcome many challenges and, in the process, have reinvented themselves. They are no longer simply Iranian writers, or Iranian writers in exile, but have become “world writers.”
A Cartoonist's Metamorphosis
MANA NEYESTANI was born in Tehran, Iran, and belongs to a family of talented artists: his older brother is a cartoonist; his father was a poet. In Iran, Neyestani worked as a cartoonist, and illustrator for economic, intellectual, political, cultural, and professional magazines, including Zan and the Persian-language Radio Zamaneh. He lived in Iran until his abrupt departure in 2006 after he was arrested and detained following violent riots in th…
Guest Editor'S Introduction
This introduction to the special issue of Iranian Studies on the Iranian diaspora situates the field within broader transnational, diasporic, and area studies frameworks. It highlights the interdisciplinary nature of Iranian diaspora studies, encompassing history, literature, anthropology, sociology, political science, and cultural studies. The introduction also emphasizes the importance of considering the diversity of Iranian diaspora experience…
Internal and External Borders
Raja Shehadeh’s writing explores the fragile existence of Palestinians living in exile, under occupation, in a land that has been transformed, not just by the Israeli “security” wall, but also by the influx of Israeli settlers on Palestinian land in the West Bank. His work meets on the boundaries between memoir, personal essay, political essay, and poetry
A Day That Lingers with Us Still
In March 2007 a car-bomb suicide attack destroyed the entire perimeter of Al-Mutanabbi Street, the heart and soul of Baghdad’s intellectual and cultural community for centuries. Responding to this tragedy, artists from all over the world have come to share a sense of solidarity as well as ownership in a project that refuses to let that day, and its significance, ever be forgotten
Introduction
s we enter the fourth decade of Iran’s revolution and continue to study the sweep-ing changes that such a historic event brought to that nation, it is also fitting that we identify and study the ways that those Iranians who left their homeland in the period between 1979 and 1988 (the establishment of the Islamic Republic and the end of the Iran-Iraq war) and immigrated to other locations have manifest their own unique experience of what we identi…
Reflections on Literature after the 1979 Revolution in Iran and in the Diaspora
This essay highlights the changes in literature in Iran and in the diaspora since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, and it especially emphasizes the role of literature and writers in responding to the societal changes in Iran, as well as to the experience of immigration to the West. The role of women writers, in particular, is suggestive of the ways in which the revolution has enabled new voices to emerge even despite the restrictive and repressive po…
Ways to Count the Dead
Ways to Count the Dead Persis Karim (bio) “Keeping track of the Iraqi death toll isn’t the job of the United States,” astudent said, “and besides, how would we count the dead?” Take their limbs strewn about the streets— multiply by a thousand and one. Ask everyone in Baghdad who has lost a brother. Cousin. Sister. Child—to speak their name in a recorder. Go to every school, stand at the front of the class, take roll; for every empty desk, at leas…
Men, Women and God(s)
This is a study of the Arab world's leading femininst and most controversial woman writer, Nawal El Saadawi. Her outspoken feminism and critique of patriarchy have won her much admiration, but also many enemies. Imprisoned in Egypt under Sadat, El Saadawi is now among those on the death lists of Islamic religious conservatives. The book contends that El Saadawi's work cannot be read in isolation from its Islamic and Arabic heritage. Drawing upon …
Introduction
s we enter the fourth decade of Iran’s revolution and continue to study the sweep-ing changes that such a historic event brought to that nation, it is also fitting that we identify and study the ways that those Iranians who left their homeland in the period between 1979 and 1988 (the establishment of the Islamic Republic and the end of the Iran-Iraq war) and immigrated to other locations have manifest their own unique experience of what we identi…
Guest Editor'S Introduction
This introduction to the special issue of Iranian Studies on the Iranian diaspora situates the field within broader transnational, diasporic, and area studies frameworks. It highlights the interdisciplinary nature of Iranian diaspora studies, encompassing history, literature, anthropology, sociology, political science, and cultural studies. The introduction also emphasizes the importance of considering the diversity of Iranian diaspora experience…
Moving from the Margin toward the Center
Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies - Volume 5, Number 2, 2018
Men, Women and God(s)
This is a study of the Arab world's leading femininst and most controversial woman writer, Nawal El Saadawi. Her outspoken feminism and critique of patriarchy have won her much admiration, but also many enemies. Imprisoned in Egypt under Sadat, El Saadawi is now among those on the death lists of Islamic religious conservatives. The book contends that El Saadawi's work cannot be read in isolation from its Islamic and Arabic heritage. Drawing upon …
Reflections on Literature after the 1979 Revolution in Iran and in the Diaspora
This essay highlights the changes in literature in Iran and in the diaspora since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, and it especially emphasizes the role of literature and writers in responding to the societal changes in Iran, as well as to the experience of immigration to the West. The role of women writers, in particular, is suggestive of the ways in which the revolution has enabled new voices to emerge even despite the restrictive and repressive po…
Ways to Count the Dead
Ways to Count the Dead Persis Karim (bio) “Keeping track of the Iraqi death toll isn’t the job of the United States,” astudent said, “and besides, how would we count the dead?” Take their limbs strewn about the streets— multiply by a thousand and one. Ask everyone in Baghdad who has lost a brother. Cousin. Sister. Child—to speak their name in a recorder. Go to every school, stand at the front of the class, take roll; for every empty desk, at leas…
Introduction
s we enter the fourth decade of Iran’s revolution and continue to study the sweep-ing changes that such a historic event brought to that nation, it is also fitting that we identify and study the ways that those Iranians who left their homeland in the period between 1979 and 1988 (the establishment of the Islamic Republic and the end of the Iran-Iraq war) and immigrated to other locations have manifest their own unique experience of what we identi…
Internal and External Borders
Raja Shehadeh’s writing explores the fragile existence of Palestinians living in exile, under occupation, in a land that has been transformed, not just by the Israeli “security” wall, but also by the influx of Israeli settlers on Palestinian land in the West Bank. His work meets on the boundaries between memoir, personal essay, political essay, and poetry
A Day That Lingers with Us Still
In March 2007 a car-bomb suicide attack destroyed the entire perimeter of Al-Mutanabbi Street, the heart and soul of Baghdad’s intellectual and cultural community for centuries. Responding to this tragedy, artists from all over the world have come to share a sense of solidarity as well as ownership in a project that refuses to let that day, and its significance, ever be forgotten
Guest Editor'S Introduction
This introduction to the special issue of Iranian Studies on the Iranian diaspora situates the field within broader transnational, diasporic, and area studies frameworks. It highlights the interdisciplinary nature of Iranian diaspora studies, encompassing history, literature, anthropology, sociology, political science, and cultural studies. The introduction also emphasizes the importance of considering the diversity of Iranian diaspora experience…
Writing Beyond Iran
Despite the losses that have come with leaving behind their homeland, their society, and their reading audiences, Iranian writers in exile have also creatively overcome many challenges and, in the process, have reinvented themselves. They are no longer simply Iranian writers, or Iranian writers in exile, but have become “world writers.”
A Cartoonist's Metamorphosis
MANA NEYESTANI was born in Tehran, Iran, and belongs to a family of talented artists: his older brother is a cartoonist; his father was a poet. In Iran, Neyestani worked as a cartoonist, and illustrator for economic, intellectual, political, cultural, and professional magazines, including Zan and the Persian-language Radio Zamaneh. He lived in Iran until his abrupt departure in 2006 after he was arrested and detained following violent riots in th…
Iranian Diaspora Kuku
WORLDLIT.ORG 63 F or me, kuku is a symbol of the Iranian diaspora kitchen. Some people make it with dill weed, some use cilantro, some use more eggs, some use walnuts instead of almonds. There are many variations of this Iranian national dish, but regardless it is a staple of Persian cooking; it is a vegetarian dish distinguished by its mix of herbs and greens cooked with eggs (for binding) and is served as both an appetizer or as part of a meal.…
We Carry Home within Us
60 WLT SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 2017 P ersis Karim, a poet and the editor of three anthologies of Iranian diaspora literature, is the Neda Nobari Chair of the newly established Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies at San Francisco State University. In her new position , Karim is in the unique position to provide institutional recognition for the emerging field of Iranian diaspora studies—an extension of her long career of editing and promoting Iranian Am…
Moving from the Margin toward the Center
Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies - Volume 5, Number 2, 2018
Moon Brow
World Literature in Review FICTION Shahriar Mandanipour Moon Brow Trans. Sara Khalili. Brooklyn. Restless Books. 2018. 452 pages. It would be an understatement to call Moon Brow, the latest novel by Shahriar Mandanipour (translated from Persian by Sara Khalili), anything but “world literature .” Moon Brow is both an Iranian novel and an example of the present global context that enables and, in Mandanipour’s case, forces literature to cross bound…
Two Poems from Shadow and Light
Two Poems from Shadow and LightPart of the Al-Mutannabi Street Starts Here Project Persis Karim (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 32] Shadow and Light was instigated by San Francisco Bay Area poet and activist Beau Beausoleil as part of a recent ancillary project of Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here (to learn more about this project, see WLT, Sept. 2013, 72). Al-Mutanabbi Street St…
Abacus of Loss
Abacus of Loss: A Memoir in Verse by Sholeh Wolpé Persis Karim Sholeh Wolpé Abacus of Loss: A Memoir in Verse Fayetteville. University of Arkansas Press. 2022. 124 pages. ON THE OPENING page of her newest collection, Abacus of Loss: A Memoir in Verse, Iranian-born poet Sholeh Wolpé shares an image of a classic abacus. Below it is the statement: “The abacus is an instrument of remembering.” But unlike the ancient abacus, Wolpé’s abacus does not ca…
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