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Dr Nacim Pak-Shiraz
- Lecturer in Persian and Film Studies
- Email: Nacim.Pak-Shiraz@ed.ac.uk
Dr Nacim Pak-Shiraz obtained her PhD in Film and Media from the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). She was a lecturer at The Institute of Ismaili Studies from 2007–2010 where she taught various subjects including Iranian Cinema and Literature of Muslim Societies.
Research Interests
Dr Pak-Shiraz’s interests include Iranian and Middle Eastern cinema, religion and spirituality in film and media, religion and the Iranian performing arts, contemporary expressions of Shi‘i Islam in art and material culture, and Persian language and literature.
Publications
Books
Shi‘i Islam in Iranian Cinema: Religion and Spirituality in Film. London: I.B. Tauris, forthcoming (2010).
Journal Articles
‘Filmic Discourses on the Role of the Clergy in Iran’, in British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, A Special Issue On Modern Iranian Intellectuals, Taylor & Francis, Ltd. Dec 2007. Also published in Lloyd Ridgeon (ed.), Iranian Intellectuals, 1997-2007, London: Routledge, 2008.
Translation of articles for Encyclopaedia Islamica, ed. Farhad Daftary and Wilferd Madelung, London: Brill in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2008: ‘Aban b. ‘Abd al- Hamid al-Lahiqi’, ‘Abdali’, ‘Abu al-‘Abbas al-Mursi’, ‘Abu ‘Abd Allah al-Zanjani’, ‘Abu ‘Abd al-Rahman al Sulami’, and ‘Abu al-‘Ala’ Bihishti’.
‘Women and Boundaries in Iranian Cinema’, in Richard Tapper and Laura Mulvey (eds.) Beyond the Veil, Behind the Lens: Women in Iranian Cinema, forthcoming.
‘Cinema in the Islamic World’, in Malise Ruthven with Azim Nanji, Historical Atlas of Islam, Harvard University Press, 2004.
Film
The Dream of Flight (2002), 45-minute ethnographic film shot in Van, Turkey in Summer 2001.
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