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Publications of Negar Mottahedeh     :chronological  combined  bibtex listing:

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Books

  1. N. Mottahedeh. Representing the Unpresentable: Images of Reform from the Qajars to the Islamic Republic of Iran.  Syracuse University Press, December 2007.

Edited Volumes

  1. N. Mottahedeh. Memory and Gender in Iranian History. Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic CulturesLeiden, Netherlands: Bril, Spring, 2006 ().
  2. N. Mottahedeh. Female Body as Metaphor. Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Spring, 2006 ().
  3. N. Mottahedeh. Memory and Gender in Iranian History. Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Culture, Spring, 2006 ().
  4. N. Mottahedeh. The New Iranian Cinema. Traditions in World CinemaEdinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, Spring, 2006 ().

Articles in a Journal

  1. N. Mottahedeh. "Negative Refractions: Recent feminist writing on the Middle East." Women's Studies Quarterly Special Issue on the Global Intimate (Winter, 2006).
  2. N. Mottahedeh. "* “Off the grid: Reading Iranian memoirs in our time of total war” (Middle East Research and Information Project, September 2004) (refereed journal) www.merip.org/mero/interventions/mottahedeh_interv.html."   (2005).
  3. N. Mottahedeh. "Karbala Drag Kings and Queens." The Drama Review  (2005).
  4. N. Mottahedeh. "Christine Jeff's Rain: Universality and Narrative Displacement in Cinema." World Order Magazine 35.1 (Spring 2004).
  5. N. Mottahedeh. "Off the Grid: Reading Iranian Memoirs in Our Time of Total War." MIddle East Research and Information Project  (September 2004). [html]
  6. N. Mottahedeh. ""Life is Color!" Towards a transnational feminist analysis of Mohsen Makhmalbaf's Gabbeh." Signs  (2004). Special Issue on film feminisms
  7. N. Mottahedeh. "After Images of a Revolution: On the Work of Shirin Neshat and Gita Hashemi." Radical History Review 86 (Spring, 2003): 183-190.
  8. N. Mottahedeh. "Karbala Drag Kings and Queens." The Drama Review  (2003). 6,000 words
  9. N. Mottahedeh. "Where are Kiarostami's women?." Alphabet City  (2003). 9,400 words
  10. N. Mottahedeh. "The fictive primitives global (short-) circuit." Signs  (2003). Special issue on Film Feminisms; 6,300 words
  11. N. Mottahedeh. "Resurrection, Return, Reform: Ta’ziyeh as Model for Early Babi Historiography." Iranian Studies 32.3 (2000): 387-399.
  12. N. Mottahedeh. "Bahram Bayza`i's Maybe Some Other Time: The un-Present-able Iran." Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture and Media Studies 43 (2000): 163-191.
  13. N. Mottahedeh. "The Mutilated Body of the Modern Nation." Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 18.2 (1998): 38-50.
  14. N. Mottahedeh. "Scheduled For Judgment Day: The Ta’ziyeh Performance in Qajar Persia and Walter Benjamin’s Dramatic Vision of History." Theatre InSight 8.1 (Spring, 1997): 12-20.
  15. N. Mottahedeh. "Ruptured Spaces and Effective Histories: The Unveiling of the Babi Poetess Qurrat al-’Ayn-Tahirih in the Gardens of Badasht." UCLA Historical Journal 17 (1997): 59-81. H-Bahai: Occasional Papers in Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Studies, 2:2 (February, 1998) The latter is a refereed on-line journal

Articles in a Collection

  1. N. Mottahedeh. "“Ruptured Spaces, Effective Histories”." Tahirih in History: Perspective on Qurrat al-‘Ayn from East and West. Ed. Sabir Afaqi. Studies in the Babi and Baha’I ReligionsKalimat press, Fall, 2004.
  2. N. Mottahedeh. "Where are Kiarostami's Women?." Subtitles: On the Foreignness of Film Ed. Eds. Atom Egoyan and Ian Balfour. MIT Press, 2004.
  3. N. Mottahedeh. "Images of Women: [08] Middle East." The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women's Studies Ed. Cheris Kramarae and Dale Spender. 4 VolsNY: Routledge, 2000. (topics editor Angharad N. Valdivia)
  4. N. Mottahedeh. "Bahram Bayza`i: Filmography." Life and Art: the New Iranian Cinema Ed. R. Issa and S. Whitaker. London: BFI, 1999, 74-82. (Translated into Persian in Zindihgi va honar: sinama-yi novin-i Iran trans. Parvanih Faridi and Omid Rawhani (Tehran, 1379), 101-110)

Articles Accepted in Collection

  1. N. Mottahedeh. "Memory and Gender in Iranian History Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures 6 vols. ed. Suad Joseph (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, forthcoming , 2005, 900 words)." .. 2005.
  2. N. Mottahedeh. "* “Where are Kiarostami’s women?” in Subtitles: On the Foreignness of Film Ed. Atom Egoyan and Ian Balfour (MIT Press 2004), 309-333.." .. 2005.
  3. N. Mottahedeh. "“Ruptured Spaces, Effective Histories” in Tahirih in History: Perspective on Qurrat al-‘Ayn from East and West, Studies in the Babi and Baha’i Religions Vol. 16 ed. Sabir Afaqi (Kalimat Press, 2004), 203-219.." .. 2005.
  4. N. Mottahedeh. "Ta'ziyeh: A Twist of History in Everyday Life." Karbala Women.. 2005. (21 pages)
  5. N. Mottahedeh. "Female Body as Metaphor." Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures.. 2005. (2 encyclopedia entries, 6,000 words)
  6. N. Mottahedeh. "The New Iranian Cinema." Traditions in World Cinema. Ed. L. Badley, S. Schneider and R.B. Palmer. Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming. (4,500 words)
  7. N. Mottahedeh. "Women, Gender, and Constituting the Female Body: Iran." Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures.. 2005. (1,000 words)
  8. N. Mottahedeh. "Memory and Gender in Iranian History." Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures.. 2005. (900 words)

Book Reviews

  1. Ed. Richard Tapper, The New Iranian Cinema: Politics, Representation, and Identity. Iranian Studies  (2005).
  2.  Iranian Islam: The Concept of the Individual by Nader Ahmadi and Fereshteh Ahmadi. Iranian Studies 33:1-2 (2005).
  3. N. Mottahedeh, An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking. Iranian Studies 36:3 (2004).
  4. Hamid Naficy, Missing Persians: Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural History" by Nasrin Rahimieh. Iranian Studies  (2002). (1500 words)
  5. Eds. Kamran Talattof and Jerome W. Clinton, The Poetry of Nizami Ganjavi:Knowledge, Love and Rhetoric. Journal for Iranian Research and Analysis  (2001). (592 words)