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Excerpts?

Hello!  I have heard a lot about you from the interview, so nice to "virtually" meet.

We were hoping to post the introduction to the issue as an article.  The introduction is written by Persis Karim and Narin Rahimieh.  What do you think? In the meantime, I will paste in our table of contents, below.

 Best,

Martha

Articles

1. Introduction by Persis Karim and Nasrin Rahimieh
2. Forerunners to the Iranian-American Memoir: Najmeh Najafi's Persia Is My Heart and Nahid Rachlin's Foreigner by Amy Motlagh
3. Fake Farsi by Babak Elahi
4. The Perils and Seductions of Home: Return Narratives of the Iranian Diaspora by Jasmin Darznik
5. Re-reading Reading Lolita in Tehran by Amy De Paul
6. Defending the "Republic of the Imagination": Imagining DiasporicIranian American Identities Beyond the Jurisdiction of the Nation-State by Robert Bennett
7. Old Muses, New Voices: An Introduction to Poetry of the Iranian-American Diaspora by Persis Karim
8. Poetry and Polemics: Iranian Literary Expression in the Digital Age by Janet Alexania

Interviews

1. Interview with Nahid Rachlin by Persis Karim
2. Interview with Gina Nahai by Jasmin Darznik
3. Interview with Jahanshah Javid by Janet Alexanian

Book Reviews

1. Review of two Iranian-American (Let Me Tell You and A World Between) anthologies (reviewed by Babak Elahi)
2. Review of Jumping Over Fire by Nahid Rachlin reviewed by Amena Moinfar)
3. Review of Caspian Rain by Gina Nahai  (reviewed by Sharareh Frouzesh Bennett)
4. Review of Jasmine and Stars by   (reviewed by Amy DePaul)
5. Review of Farnoosh Moshiri's novels (reviewed by Sheefteh Khalili)
6. Review of My Name is Iran by Davar Ardalan (reviewed by Kianoosh  Hashemzadeh)
7. Review of A Mirror Garden by Monir Shadroudy Farmanfarmaian and Zara Houshmand (reviewed by Persis Karim)
8. Review of Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani (reviewed by Parissa Ebrahimzadeh)
9. Review of Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer(reviewed by Amy Tahani-Bidmeshki)
10. Review of Sons and Other Flammable Objects by Porochista Khakpour reviewed by Sepideh Saremi)

Excerpt

Please offer some excerpts.