Books

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

Papers Published

1. N. Mottahedeh. "Negative Refractions: Recent feminist writing on the Middle East." Women's Studies Quarterly Special Issue on the Global Intimate (Winter, 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. "“Ruptured Spaces, Effective Histories”." Tahirih in History: Perspective on Qurrat al-‘Ayn from East and West. Studies in the Babi and Baha’I Religions16 (Fall, Fall, 2004).
5. N. Mottahedeh. "Christine Jeff's Rain: Universality and Narrative Displacement in Cinema." World Order Magazine 35:1 (Spring, Spring 2004).
6. N. Mottahedeh. "Off the Grid: Reading Iranian Memoirs in Our Time of Total War." MIddle East Research and Information Project  (September 2004). [html]
7. N. Mottahedeh. ""Life is Color!" Towards a transnational feminist analysis of Mohsen Makhmalbaf's Gabbeh."  Special Issue on film feminisms Signs  (2004).
8. N. Mottahedeh. "Where are Kiarostami's Women?." Subtitles: On the Foreignness of Film  (2004).
9. N. Mottahedeh. "After Images of a Revolution: On the Work of Shirin Neshat and Gita Hashemi." Radical History Review 86 (Spring, 2003): 183-190.
10. N. Mottahedeh. "Karbala Drag Kings and Queens."  6,000 words The Drama Review  (2003).
11. N. Mottahedeh. "Where are Kiarostami's women?."  9,400 words Alphabet City  (2003).
12. N. Mottahedeh. "The fictive primitives global (short-) circuit."  Special issue on Film Feminisms; 6,300 words Signs  (2003).
13. N. Mottahedeh. "Resurrection, Return, Reform: Ta’ziyeh as Model for Early Babi Historiography." Iranian Studies 32:3 (2000): 387-399.
14. 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.
15. N. Mottahedeh. "Images of Women: [08] Middle East."  topics editor Angharad N. Valdivia The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women's Studies 4 Vols (2000).
16. N. Mottahedeh. "Bahram Bayza`i: Filmography."  Translated into Persian in Zindihgi va honar: sinama-yi novin-i Iran trans. Parvanih Faridi and Omid Rawhani (Tehran, 1379), 101-110 Life and Art: the New Iranian Cinema  (1999): 74-82.
17. N. Mottahedeh. "The Mutilated Body of the Modern Nation." Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 18:2 (1998): 38-50.
18. 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, Spring, 1997): 12-20.
19. N. Mottahedeh. "Ruptured Spaces and Effective Histories: The Unveiling of the Babi Poetess Qurrat al-’Ayn-Tahirih in the Gardens of Badasht."  H-Bahai: Occasional Papers in Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Studies, 2:2 (February, 1998) The latter is a refereed on-line journal UCLA Historical Journal 17 (1997): 59-81.

Papers Accepted

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."  21 pages Karbala Women  (2005).
5. N. Mottahedeh. "Female Body as Metaphor."  2 encyclopedia entries, 6,000 words Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures  (2005).
6. N. Mottahedeh. "The New Iranian Cinema."  4,500 words Traditions in World Cinema  (forthcoming).
7. N. Mottahedeh. "Women, Gender, and Constituting the Female Body: Iran."  1,000 words Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures  (2005).
8. N. Mottahedeh. "Memory and Gender in Iranian History."  900 words Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures  (2005).

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)

Edited Volumes

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