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… trans-imperial and trans-regional early modern and modern Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. Her research … of migration, space, ethnic identity, and constructions of sovereignty through Afghan histories, genealogies, and poetry alongside non-Afghan histories, memoirs, travel …

… She grew up in India and studied there as well as in Iran and Syria before earning her doctorate.  Her research … Studies Council … Translation Initiative … /middleeast/iran/person/supriya-gandhi … /southasia/person/supriya-gandhi …

… and addressing the challenges and obstacles that prevent minority communities from having an equal stake in society … addressing the most pressing needs? A: Personally, I’m a minority and I happen to come from the same background of the … really benefited from the program. So when we organized an event at his school with the Mayor of London, we chose Omar …

… Times’ obituary on Professor Yarshater: Ehsan Yarshater, Iran Scholar With a Monumental Vision, Dies at 98 Sept. 18, … Mojdeh Yarshater. Professor Yarshater’s encyclopedia cast Iran as a global civilization in the aftermath of the Iranian … reforms. He received a doctorate in 15th-century Persian poetry from the University of Tehran and then studied ancient …

… of violent persecution of the group – an ethnic Muslim minority group based in Western Rakhine state, along … to stop genocide, once it is underway. Fundamentally, sovereignty and economic interests continue to reign supreme. … R2P doctrine (and has its own campaign against a Muslim minority, to boot); and finally that the Myanma government, …

… on Twitter and Facebook. The South Asian Studies Weekly Colloquium will continue to meet Wednesdays at 4:30 PM in … human rights with particular focus on gender issues and minority rights, and who has worked both in South Asia and … in Fall 2013, including one in mid-September called “Food Sovereignty:  A Critical Dialogue” which is mounted in …

… The Ottomans thus had long experience with ruling as minority Muslims over a majority non-Muslim population. … practices to maintain. As long as people recognized the sovereignty of the Ottoman Empire, they were allowed to pay … empire. Unlike in Christian Europe, Ottoman policy allowed minority groups religious autonomy to be governed by their …

… president of the Guggenheim Foundation and 1985 Fellow in Poetry. “This year marks the Foundation’s 97th annual …

… Shrine: History, religion and architecture in early modern Iran  (British Institute for Persian Studies, I. B. Tauris, … parts of the Middle East, including Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates.  Current projects include … and architecture; on the intersection between painting and poetry in Persianate art; and on the artistic, cultural, and …