“Why is the measure of love loss?”– Jeanette Winterson When in fall 2002 Parvin told me that her melanoma had returned, after a twenty-year lapse,

When I arrived in Tehran in early July, it was shortly after the presidential elections. There was a great deal of apprehension about what the

Introduction to Afsaneh Najmabadi's Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards : Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity (, 2005). Najmabadi is Professor of

The recent BBC Newsnight program [Frances Harrison, “Iran's sex-change operation,” January 5, 2005,] follows a number of similar reports that have hit the international media

Now that the discussion on what to call whom has taken off, allow me to add a few words. As Choob Dosar-Gohi has noted in

Perhaps it is an unfortunate coincidence to have encountered a distinguished Harvard scholar's article at the end of a bad day. It may simply be

I must start with a confession: When I first read “Being straight with queers,” I was tempted to write a response with a title like:

From “Veils and Words” by Farzaneh Milani (Syracuse University Press; 1992). “There are no walls around the houses here,” I wrote in my diary, in