Minoo Moallem was getting her master’s degree at Tehran University when the Iranian revolution swept the country. At first, she enjoyed new civil liberties, but as those were curtailed, Moallem left to pursue her Ph.D. abroad.
Moallem is now a professor of gender and women’s studies and the new faculty director for the UC Berkeley Initiative for Iranian Studies.
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December 11, 2025
Berkeley Arts & Humanities
April 9, 2024
MELC
The department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures mourns Professor Emerita Guitty Azarpay, esteemed colleague and member of the department between 1964 and 1994 (continuing as active emerita for another decade), who passed away in early April 2024.
October 9, 2023
Berkeley English
We are pleased to welcome Solmaz Sharif to the UC Berkeley Department of English as Shirley Shenker Assistant Professor.
August 15, 2023
MELC
Solmaz Sharif, the author of Customs (Graywolf Press, 2022) and Look (Graywolf Press, 2016), will give the 2023 Maziar Maghsoodnia Memorial Fund Reading on September 13, 2023. She will be in conversation with Lubna Safi, an advanced Ph.D. candidate at MELC and the author of Your Blue and the Quiet Lament: Poems. Reception to follow.