Poetry and Subversion: Kiarostami’s Films for One Diasporic Iranian Shabnam Piryaei December 2016 The Wind Will Carry Him: Abbas Kiarostami Remembered I react with sorrow to any sort of change that would not be consistent with the freedom of people. I write this four days after the 2016 American presidential election. On the day the KKK is holding a public c...
Ethical Encounters: Teaching Transnational Cinema: Politics and Pedagogy, by Katarzyna Marciniak and Bruce Bennett (eds.) Shabnam Piryaei December 2016 Book Reviews In the context of incessant war and war-rhetoric, state-sanctioned torture, refugee crises, fear of terrorism, and increasing animosity toward immigrants and those deemed to be foreigners, teaching internationa...
