Liora Hendelman-Baavur is the director of the Alliance Center for Iranian Studies (ACIS) at Tel Aviv University. She is the author of Creating the Modern Iranian Woman: Popular Culture between Two Revolutions, Cambridge University Press, 2019. Dr. Hendelman-Baavur is a lecturer at the Department of Middle Eastern & African History at Tel Aviv University and the author of numerous papers and articles, including "The Other 'Ashura': The Martyrdom of Fatima in Contemporary Shi'i Discourse," in Meir Hatina and Meir Litvak (eds.), Martyrdom and Sacrifice in Islam: Theological, Political and Social Contexts, (London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2017), pp. 207-223; "The Odyssey of Jalal Al-e Ahmad's Gharbzadegi - Five Decades After" in Kamran Talattof (ed.), Persian Language, Literature and Culture: New Leaves, Fresh Looks (London, Routledge, 2015), pp. 258-286; "Grotesque Corporeality and Literary Aesthetics in Sadeq Chubak's The Patient Stone," Iranian Studies, vol. 47: 4 (2014), pp. 569-593. Her research interests include the history of modern Iran, gender, media, and popular culture.

History

19th-21st Centuries

Iranian Studies

Media

Cultural Studies

Gender/Women's Studies

Modern

Visual Cultural

Gender, Women, Journalism, Media, Popular Culture