Senior Lecturer in Persian Studies (Education)
Centre Chair
Associate Member, Centre for Media and Film Studies
Member
- Name:
- Ms Narguess Farzad
- Email address:
- nf1@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- +44(0)20 7898 4346
- Address:
- SOAS University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
- Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 440
- Academic Support Hours:
- Thursday 1-2pm, Friday 1-2pm
Biography
Teaching Persian as a foreign language, translation studies, poetry of the Persian-speaking world, Persian poetry of Sacred Defence
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Available for
- TV
- Radio
- Press
- Briefings
- Special Study Programmes
- Short Term Consultancy
- Long Term Consultancy
Regional Expertise
Country Expertise
Languages
Farzad, Narguess (2010) Complete Persian (Modern Persian/Farsi): Teach Yourself, Level 4. London, UK: Teach Yourself, Hodder Education.
Farzad, Narguess and Shapcott, Jo (2009) Poems: Farzaneh Khojandi = Farzona Khūjandi Ash'or. London, UK: Enitharmon Press.
Farzad, Narguess (2008) 'Qeysar Aminpur and the Persian Poetry of Sacred Defence'. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, (34) 3, pp 351-374.
Farzad, Narguess (2020) 'Foreword to Rumi's Book of Wisdom'. Rumi's Book of Wisdom. Charlottesville, VA, 22906, USA: Hampton Roads Publishing Company. [Forthcoming]
Farzad, Narguess (2019) '‘A Cup, Nectar Brimmed: The Enduring Appeal of Persian Poetry’'. In: Ardalan, Ziba and Wire, Helen, (eds.), The Spark Is You. London, UK: Parasol Unit- Foundation for Contemporary Art, pp 22-30.
Farzad, Narguess (2019) 'Hafiz and the Challenges of Translating Persian Poetry into English'. In: Schwepcke, Barbara and Swainson, Bill, (eds.), A New Divan: A Lyrical Dialogue between East & West. London: Gingko, pp 132-140.
Mafi, Maryam and Farzad, Narguess (2018) 'Foreword to The Rumi Book of 105 Stories and Fables that Illumine, Delight and Inform'. The Rumi Book of 105 Stories and Fables that Illumine, Delight and Inform. Charlottesville, VA, 22906, USA: Hampton Roads Publishing Company, pp xiii-xxii.
Farzad, Narguess (2017) 'Foreword : A Little Book of Mystical Secrets: Rumi, Shams of Tabriz, and the Path of Ecstasy'. In: Mafi, Maryam, (ed.), A Little Book of Mystical Secrets: Rumi, Shams of Tabriz, and the Path of Ecstasy. Newburyport, Massachusetts, USA: Hampton Roads Publishing, pp 8-14?.
Farzad, Narguess (2013) 'Introduction : Rumi’s Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart and the Spirit'. In: Mafi, Maryam, (ed.), Rumi's Little Book of Life The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit. Newburyport, Massachusetts, USA: Red Wheel / Weiser.
Farzad, Narguess (2019) 'The Decade that Invented the Future: The 1970s "The impact of the 1979 revolution in Iran"'.
Farzad, Narguess (2014) 'Islamic Golden Age: Mowlana Jalal ad-Din Balkhi, Rumi : BBC Radio 3, The Essay'.
Farzad, Narguess (2012) 'Shakespeare Around the Globe, Episode 2/5: Narguess Farzad, explores the continuing hold Shakespeare has in Iran and the Persian speaking world.'.
Farzad, Narguess (2010) 'The Great Palace of Verse'.
Farzad, Narguess (2013) The Islamic Golden Age: Essays On Rabia Balkhi and Mahsati Gandjavi.
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