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My first book was on language and gender in Cairo and addressed one of the main questions emerging out of sociolinguistics in the s—who are the agents of language change, women or men? I gravitated toward linguistic anthropology after finishing my dissertation.

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Niloofar Haeri (Persian: نیلوفر حائری) is an Iranian-American anthropologist and linguist. She is a professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Program Chair in Islamic Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

Biography - Niloofarhaeri

Research Interests: Religion, prayer, poetry, ritual, semiotics, presence, gender, voice, vernacularization, translation. Iran, Egypt and the Middle East.

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Her first book was on language and gender in Cairo and addressed one of the main questions emerging out of sociolinguistics in the s—who are the agents of language change, women or men? She gravitated toward linguistic anthropology after finishing her dissertation.

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Niloofar Haeri is Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University and the Program Chair in Islamic Studies. She is a Guggenheim Fellow and has written on Egypt and Iran.

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Using beautiful, limpid prose, Haeri weaves together poetry, religion, and ethnography to show how a group of middle-class, educated Iranian women counter the state’s version of Islam. They regularly revisit and reconsider Islamic theology by drawing on the vast body of mystic poetry that is so central to Iranian culture.

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My project on prayer and poetry was just published: Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran (Stanford University Press). I begin this book with the question of how we can avoid looking at revolutions as either failures or successes.