{"id":365,"date":"2020-07-06T09:50:06","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T13:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cims\/?post_type=profile&p=365"},"modified":"2020-07-06T09:50:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T13:50:06","slug":"sassan-tabatabai","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cims\/profile\/sassan-tabatabai\/","title":{"rendered":"Sassan Tabatabai"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sassan Tabatabai is a poet, translator, editor, and scholar of\u00a0medieval Persian literature. He regularly teaches all levels of Persian language and literature in WLL, as well as all four humanities and both social science courses in the Core Curriculum. His\u00a0work has appeared in a number of publications including\u00a0Essays in Criticism<\/em>,\u00a0<\/span>The Christian Science Monitor<\/em>,\u00a0Literary Imagination<\/em>,\u00a0The Republic of Letters<\/em>,\u00a0Senecca Review<\/em>,\u00a0<\/span>Leviathan\u00a0Quarterly, and Harvard Review<\/em>. He is the author of\u00a0Father of Persian Verse: Rudaki and his Poetry.<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>(Leiden University Press, 2010) and\u00a0<\/span>Uzunburun: Poems.<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>(Pen and Anvil Press, 2011). His current work includes the translation, interpretation, and re-appropriation of classical Persian Sufi poetry. Other than his scholarly and creative pursuits, he is a former amateur boxer with over 25 years of boxing experience. He continues his involvement with boxing as a licensed coach with\u00a0the US Amateur Boxing Federation. He was featured in Bostonia\u2019s Secret Lives of Professors in 2012.\u00a0<\/span>Click here<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>to read the article.<\/p>\n

Tabatabai is a regular contributor to the Mizan Project,\u00a0<\/span>follow this link<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>to check out some of his articles!<\/p>\n

Sassan Tabatabai\u2019s CV<\/a><\/p>\n

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