User:Zahra (Zari) Taheri/sandbox

Dr Zahra Taheri is currently the Bahari Visiting Fellow in the Persian Arts of the Book 2016-2017 at Bodleian Library, University of Oxford/UK. She is the convenor of Persian Studies program and lecturer in Persian Language and Iranian Studies at the Australian National University. https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/tanha-zt She is also the Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK). Taheri, studied classical and contemporary Persian literature in Iran at Pahlavi (Shiraz) University, and received her Master's degree in Persian Literature from the Pajuheshkade-ye Farhang-e Iran. Her advanced studies at this high-ranking academic institution, enabled her to benefit from working with Professors Parviz Natel Khanlari, Mehdi Mohaqeq, Ja’far Shahidi, and Muhammad Reza Shafi’i Kadkani. Upon arrival in California in 1983, she proceeded with her studies and research in the Doctoral program of the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University Of California, Berkeley. Once again she had the opportunity to work with Professor Hamid Algar on Persian mystical and ethical texts written in medieval Islamic era, William Brinner on the history of the Safavid period, and Muhammad Ja’far Mahjub on classical Persian Poetry. She has been teaching Persian literature and language in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley (USA), the Department of Persian Studies at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Japan), and Australasian National University. She published the first edition of her book Hozur-e peyda va penhan-e zan dar mutun-e sufiyyeh (The Presence and Absence of Women in Persian Sufi Texts), in Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, the Institute of Asian and African Studies in 2007. Her Second book "The Silence of Old Mirrors: The Lost Voice of a Muslim Woman in the Constitutional Revolution Era, the life and works of ‘Alamtaj Qaem-Maqami" was translated into Japanese and published in Japan/Tokyo in 2012. The Persian version of this book "sokut-e kohan-e 'aayene-haa" was published by Nashr-e Sales in Iran. She is currently working on her upcoming book on "The Image of Women in Persian Ethical Texts," through a visiting scholar fellowship from the university of Oxford, UK. Apart from her rich academic achievements, Zahra Taheri is also a poet. She has published two collections of her poetry: 1) Milad, published by "Iranina Studies Group, University of California, Berkeley", California, 1990. 2) Pegaah-e Nokhostin (The Primal Down), Langley Printing, Maryland, USA, 1997. Her third poetry book "daaman be khaak mikeshad maah" is in the process of publishing by “Nashr-e Sales” in Iran