ROXANNE VARZI
Tuesday, July 25 at 7:30 p.m.

A night after Nahid Rachlin, Iran is looked at from a different vantage point as University of California, Irvine professor Roxanne Varzi discusses her new non-fiction work, Warring Souls: Youth, Media, and Martyrdom in Post-Revolution Iran (Duke). Professor Varzi received the first Fulbright for research in Iran since the revolution of 1979, research undertaken in her homeland that this book is at least partially the result of. "Inside and outside the pulse of war in Iran, close up and far away, Roxanne Varzi weaves her spell; two parts anthropology, one part poetry and film theory, three parts a soaring imagination and a big heart. How could you not reach for a book which situates itself at the intersection of religion, vision, and power, asking whether the individual ultimately has the power to turn the image off? A tour de force." - Michael Taussig. "Warring Souls is an outstanding and nuanced addition to the literature of contemporary Iranian culture, media, and society." - Hamid Naficy.

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