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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, PhD, is Master Lecturer in World Languages & Literatures and the Core Curriculum, and Coordinator of the Persian Language Program at Boston University. He is also a poet, translator, editor, and scholar of medieval Persian literature. His work has appeared in many publications including Essays in Criticism, The Christian Science Monitor, Literary Imagination, The Republic of Letters, Senecca Review, Leviathan Quarterly, and Harvard Review. He is the author of Father of Persian Verse: Rudaki and his Poetry. (Leiden University Press, 2010) and Uzunburun: Poems. (Pen and Anvil Press, 2011). Other than his scholarly and creative pursuits, he is a former amateur boxer with over 25 years of boxing experience. He continues his involvement with boxing as a licensed coach with the US Amateur Boxing Federation.

Editorial Assistant: Raphael Gordon

Raphael Gordon is the 2020 recipient of the ILEX award for distinguished work in Persian studies at Boston University

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