Rana Safvi is an author and historian with a passion for culture and heritage. She is the founder and moderator of the #shair platform on Twitter, credited with reviving popular interest in Ur
SHAHRNUSH PARSIPUR, born in Iran in 1946, began her career as a fiction writer and a producer at Iranian National Television and Radio. Shortly after the publication of Women Without Men in 1989, P
Robert Biel, Ph.D. (1991) International Relations, London School of Economics, teaches political ecology at University College, London and has published extensively, including The New Imperialism (
Geoffrey Nowell-Smith is Professor and Senior Research Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London, where he is directing a project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council on the history
Samer Al-Saber is assistant professor of theatre and performance studies at Stanford University. He is a director and scholar of theatre in the Middle East.
