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Racist Artificial Intelligence: Where does it come from? (2023)
Journal Article
Adib-Moghaddam, A. (2023). Racist Artificial Intelligence: Where does it come from?. Faṣlnāmah-i muṭāli̒āt-i biyn/al- milalī فصلنامه مطالعات بینالمللی (Print) (چاپی), 20(2), 139-159. https://doi.org/10.22034/ISJ.2023.182419

How did racism creep into the algorithms that govern our daily lives, from banking and shopping, to job applications? Connecting the legacy of enlightenment racism to forms of discrimination in modern day algorithms and Artificial Intelligence, this... Read More about Racist Artificial Intelligence: Where does it come from?.

History Haunting the Present: Re-Interpreting the Truth in Contemporary Art of Iran (2023)
Journal Article
Keshmirshekan, H. (2023). History Haunting the Present: Re-Interpreting the Truth in Contemporary Art of Iran. Arts, 12(2), 45. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts12020045

This article examines the notions of history and memory with references to the works of contemporary artists from Iran. It interrogates the theme of challenging the present through the re-interpretation of history and investigates how artists respond... Read More about History Haunting the Present: Re-Interpreting the Truth in Contemporary Art of Iran.

Sharing Myths, Texts and Sanctuaries in the South Caucasus: Apocryphal Themes in Literatures, Arts and Cults from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages (2022)
Book
Dorfmann, I. (Ed.). (2022). Sharing Myths, Texts and Sanctuaries in the South Caucasus: Apocryphal Themes in Literatures, Arts and Cults from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Peeters. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2tjdgt6

This volume is one of the few collections of studies that looks at the South Caucasus - from the Black Sea in the west to the Caspian Sea in the east - as a shared cultural space. It explores contacts between Armenians, Georgians, Kurds and Muslims o... Read More about Sharing Myths, Texts and Sanctuaries in the South Caucasus: Apocryphal Themes in Literatures, Arts and Cults from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages.

The Routledge Handbook on the Middle East Economy (2021)
Book
Hakimian, H. (Ed.). (2021). The Routledge Handbook on the Middle East Economy. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315103969

This Handbook captures the salient features of Middle Eastern economies and critically examines the public policy responses required to address the challenges and opportunities across the region. Bringing together wide-ranging perspectives from caref... Read More about The Routledge Handbook on the Middle East Economy.

Foreword to Rumi's Book of Wisdom (2021)
Book Chapter
Farzad, N. (2021). Foreword to Rumi's Book of Wisdom. In M. Mafi (Ed.), Rumi's Book of Wisdom (vii-xvii). Hampton Roads Publishing Company

Settled rather than saddled Scythians: the easternmost Sakas (2020)
Book Chapter
Waghmar, B. (2020). Settled rather than saddled Scythians: the easternmost Sakas. In S. Pankova, & S. J. Simpson (Eds.), Masters of the Steppe: the Impact of the Scythians and Later Nomad Societies of Eurasia. Proceedings of a conference held at the British Museum, 27-29 October 2017 (639-649). Archaeopress

At the easternmost edge of the Iranic world, settled rather than saddled Scythians ran the kingdom of Khotan as Iranian-speaking Buddhists who traded and tussled with their T’ang and Tibetan neighbours. Straddling the Sino-Tibetan and Irano-Indic oec... Read More about Settled rather than saddled Scythians: the easternmost Sakas.

Subversive Skylines: Local History and the Rise of the Sayyids in Mongol Yazd (2018)
Journal Article
Mancini-Lander, D. (2019). Subversive Skylines: Local History and the Rise of the Sayyids in Mongol Yazd. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 82(1), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X18001015

This article examines the emergence of the Ḥusaynī sayyids as key facilitators of the Mongols’ acculturation to Islamo-Persianate society and traces the expansion of their influence at imperial courts through the seventeenth century. Previous scholar... Read More about Subversive Skylines: Local History and the Rise of the Sayyids in Mongol Yazd.

Annemarie Schimmel v: Bibliography (2018)
Book Chapter
Waghmar, B. Annemarie Schimmel v: Bibliography. In E. Yarshater (Ed.), Encyclopædia Iranica. Encyclopædia Iranica Foundation

‘To be or not to be’ (like the West): modernisation in Russia and Iran (2018)
Journal Article
Tazmini, G. (2018). ‘To be or not to be’ (like the West): modernisation in Russia and Iran. Third World Quarterly, 39(10), 1998-2015. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2018.1447375

Having passed through a labyrinth of social contradictions, both Russia and Iran have reached a point on their historical timelines where they have transcended the logic of development of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Today, Rus... Read More about ‘To be or not to be’ (like the West): modernisation in Russia and Iran.