Persis Karim
Biographic Data
| ID | 416826 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Persis Karim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Persis |
| FAMILY NAME | Karim |
| SIGNATURE | KARIM P |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Destination Xalapa Where the Anthropology Museum Is a Must
Tehrangeles by Porochista Khakpour (review)
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…
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…
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…
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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…
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…
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…
Tehrangeles by Porochista Khakpour (review)
Destination Xalapa Where the Anthropology Museum Is a Must
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