User:Zari (Zahra) Taheri/sandbox

'Dr Zahra (Zari) Taheri is the convenor of Persian Studies program at ANU, holds the position of lecturer in Persian Language and Iranian Studies at the Australian National University. Taheri, studied classical and contemporary Persian literature in Iran at Pahlavi (Shiraz) University. Later, she was admitted to the Department of Literature in the Pajuheshkade-ye Farhang-e Iran for advanced studies which 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 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. Before her migration to Australia she has been teaching Persian literature and language in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley, and the Department of Persian Studies at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Japan). She published the first edition of her book Hozur-e peyda va penhan-e zan dar mutun-e sufiyyeh (The Absence and Presence of Women in Persian Sufi Texts), in Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, the Institute of Asian and African Studies in 2007. At the moment she is working on her upcoming book on The image of women in Persian Ethical Texts, and has an offer for a fellowship from Oxford university for working on this current research. Recently her last book Sokut-e Kohan-e Ayeneha: negahi be shi’r-e Alamtaj Ghaem-Maghami (The Silence of Old Mirrors: The Lost Voice of a Muslim Woman in the Constitutional Period (‘Alamtaj Qaem-maqami) which has also been translated into Japanese in 2012, published in Persian in Iran by Sales publisher. Apart from her rich academic achievements Zahra Taheri is also a poet, began writing poetry since she was a teenager. Taheri has published two Persian poetry collections so far: Milad, (in Persian) published by "Study Group on Iran, UC Berkeley", California, Oct 1990; Pegah e Nakhostin, published by: Langley Printing, United States of America, Collection of poems from 1991 to 1992, 1997. Her third poetry book is going to be published inside Iran through “Sales” publisher.''