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Amir Moosavi

Amir Moosavi

Doctoral Student Fellow

Doctoral Student, Department of Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies, Graduate School of Arts & Science

Amir Moosavi is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at NYU. He holds an MA in Near Eastern studies from NYU and a BA in history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Broadly speaking, his interests include the development of the novel in modern Arabic and Persian literatures, war and cultural production, and Arabic and Persian language pedagogy. His dissertation, “Reimagining a War: Negotiating Ideology and Disenchantment in Literary Narratives of the Iran-Iraq War,” is a comparative study of the formation of alternative narratives of the Iran-Iraq War in Persian and Arabic fiction. During the 2013-24 academic year, he was visiting instructor of Arabic at Bard College.