Amir Mousavi
Literary scholar of modern Arabic and Persian literatures and professor at Rutgers University, Newark; author of Dust That Never Settles: Literary Afterlives of the Iran-Iraq War (Stanford UP, 2025).
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Sep 14, 2025 • 29min
Amir Moosavi, "Dust That Never Settles: Literary Afterlives of the Iran-Iraq War" (Stanford UP, 2025)
Amir Mousavi, a Rutgers professor of modern Arabic and Persian literatures and author, discusses how Iraqi and Iranian writers have grappled with the Iran-Iraq War. He traces wartime state-sanctioned literatures evolving into mourning and protest. He compares literary trajectories across borders and explains his comparative methodology and key themes.
