Paul Sprachman (born 26 May 1947) is a professor emeritus who taught at

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in the United States. He earned his PhD degree from

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in 1981. He has worked and studied in Afghanistan and Iran for a number of years. He lives in the

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Works

Sprachman has authored several books on Persian literature. His ''Erotic Persian'' is a general survey of language and images that arouse sexual desire. ''Language and Culture in Persian'' lies at the intersection of what we ordinarily associate with language learning, standard vocabulary, idiom, grammar, etc. and a set of shared assumptions about the world that we call “culture.” ''Suppressed Persian'' is an anthology of selected pieces of poetry and prose that deeply offend long-established standards of "good taste" and "morality" in Iran. His ''Licensed Fool'' (illustrated by Ardeshir Mohassess) is about the Medieval Persian satirist Obeyd Zakani. Sprachman has translated a number of

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books into English, such as '' Gharbzadegi'' (''Plagued by the West''), '' A City Under Siege: Tales of the Iran-Iraq War'', '' One Woman's War: Da (Mother)'', '' Tehran: Revolution Street'' and ''Chess with the Doomsday Machine''''.'' He published ''Two Centuries of Silence: Abdulhossein Zarrinkoub and the Formation of Iranian National Identity'' in 2018. In his extensive introductory essay to Zarrinkub's monograph, Sprachman offers his analysis as how Zarrinkub was compelled to change his historical view of Iranian history after the 1979 Revolution

References

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