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Kevin Schwartz and Aria Fani

Contributor

Kevin Schwartz and Aria Fani

Kevin Schwartz is a recent Social Science Research Council postdoctoral fellow for Transregional Research and Visiting Scholar at Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland. He received his Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied and wrote about Persian literary culture across West, Central, and South Asia. His writings on the politics, culture, and history of Iran and the Middle East have been featured in The Baltimore Sun, Jadaliyya, CounterPunch, and Reorient. He can be reached at k.lewis.schwartz@gmail.com.

 

A native of Shiraz, Aria Fani is a Ph.D. student in Near Eastern Studies at the University of California in Berkeley. He studies and writes about Persian poetry and its interplay with other literary cultures. His essays and literary translations appear regularly in Peyk, San Diego Persian Cultural Center’s bilingual publication. His writings have also been featured in Ajam Media Collective, PBS Tehran Bureau, The Huffington Post, Reorient, and Jadaliyya.

Articles by Kevin Schwartz and Aria Fani

Crafting a Cultural Idiom of Engagement: The US President’s Persian Poetry (Part 2)
By Kevin Schwartz and Aria Fani
This the second part of a two-part series on president Barack Obama's use of Persian poetry as a diplomatic tool. Click here to read part one.In his 2015 message, as he had done previously in 2013,…
Crafting a Cultural Idiom of Engagement: The US President’s Persian Poetry (Part 1)
By Kevin Schwartz and Aria Fani
The events culminating in the interim agreement between Iran and the members of the P5+1 group in Lausanne, Switzerland over Iran’s nuclear program are sure to attract historians wishing to understand…