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Project and Journal Guest Editor: Neguin Yavari

Neguin Yavari, PhD, Columbia University, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, University of Leipzig.

POP Guest Editor: Sassan Tabatabai

Sassan Tabatabai is a poet, translator, and scholar of Medieval Persian literature. He is Master Lecturer in World Languages and Literatures and the Core Curriculum, and Coordinator of the Persian Language Program at Boston University. He is the author of Father of Persian Verse: Rudaki and his Poetry (Leiden University Press), Sufi Haiku (Nemi Books), and Uzunburun: Poems (Pen and Anvil), and translator of the novel Blind Owl by Sadeq Hedayat (Penguin Classics).

Editorial Assistant: Birdie Gile

Birdie Gile is a graduate of Boston University's Sociocultural Anthropology program. She is the 2025 recipient of the ILEX Award for Distinguished Work in Persian Studies.

Mizan | Advisory Board


	Kecia Ali	ka@bu.edu
	Thomas Barfield	barfield@bu.edu
	Richard Bulliet	rwb3@columbia.edu
	Juan Cole	jricole@gmail.com
	Emine Fetvaci	fetvaci@bu.edu
	Margaret Litvin	mlitvin@bu.edu
	Teena Purohit	tpurohit@bu.edu

Mizan | Journal Editorial Board


	Cynthia Becker	cjbecker@bu.edu
	Olga M. Davidson	davidson@fas.harvard.edu
	Adam Gaiser	agaiser@fsu.edu
	Roberta Micallef	micallef@bu.edu
	Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst	ilyse.morgenstein-fuerst@uvm.edu
	Sabine Schmidtke	scs@ias.edu
	Sunil Sharma	sharma@bu.edu