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"You live a life": a Conversation with Minoo Moallem

"You live a life": a Conversation with Minoo Moallem

The East is a Podcast · East is a Podcast

September 12, 20231h 12m

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Show Notes

*Note: This is roughly 75% of the conversation. To listen to the entire episode, subscribe to the show on Patreon for as little as $5 a month*

Friend of the podcast Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya) and Minoo Moallem, a professor at UC Berkeley, had a conversation about Persian carpets as commodities and more than commodities, Iran, Islamophobia, diasporic loss, feminism, patriarchy, culture, and the making and unmaking of theory and area studies.

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The digital project Nation on the Move may be found here: http://vectors.usc.edu/projects/index.php?project=83; The essay on the prayer carpet: https://mavcor.yale.edu/sites/default/files/article_pdf/moallem_minoo_pdf.pdf; The new project on carpet artists: https://www.famsf.org/stories/weaving-connections-carpet-art-community-environment; The Meridians article, "Race, Gender, and Religion: Islamophobia and Beyond": https://read.dukeupress.edu/meridians/article-abstract/20/2/271/296649/Race-Gender-and-ReligionIslamophobia-and-Beyond Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast