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Research Article| July 01 2020 Cover Art Concept Fakhri Haghani Fakhri Haghani FAKHRI HAGHANI is a scholar of the history of Iran and the Middle East. She has taught at Clark Atlanta University, Georgia State University, and Rutgers University. Her scholarship focuses on the comparative history of Egypt and Iran as social, visual, and gendered cultures. Contact: the.fakhrih@gmail.com. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 209–212. https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-8238230 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Fakhri Haghani; Cover Art Concept. Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 1 July 2020; 16 (2): 209–212. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-8238230 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsJournal of Middle East Women's Studies Search Advanced Search This issue’s cover art, Samira Alikhanzadeh’s Ata and Aziz Troupe, 1291 A.P., part of the artist’s series Centennial, illustrates the centennial celebration of the emergence of female musicians and entertaining troupes in modern Iran.1 In this 2013 series of print images, Alikhanzadeh delineates memories of the past not as a set of historical facts and examples but as a series of problems and interpretations in need of viewers’ critical interventions and interactional analysis.The history of women’s presence in music and dance in Iran is as ancient as the country itself. Women entertainers appeared in sculpture reliefs and miniature paintings as far back as the Achaemenid (550–331 BCE), Sassanid (224–651 CE), and Safavid (1501–1722) periods, the three Iranian empires well known for their enormous support for and investment in architecture, fine arts, and entertaining arts,... Copyright © 2020 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies2020 Issue Section: Third Space You do not currently have access to this content.
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