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Wali Ahmadi, a native of Kabul, Afghanistan, came to the United
Steates after graduating from high school in 1982.
He received a B.A. in political and social sciences from California
State
University, Hayward (now East Bay) in 1987. In spring 1997, he was awarded a
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UCLA. From 1997-2000 he taught at the
Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University
of Virginia. Since 2000, he has been teaching Persian literature in the Near
Eastern Studies Department at UC Berkeley. He was promoted to the rank of
Associate Professor in 2007 and also serves as the departmental Undergraduate Adviser.
Professor Ahmadi’s primary areas of interest include classical and modern
Persian literature, literary theory and criticism, and cultural history. |
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Interesting links:
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The Barren Sky of Hope: Contemporary Persian
Poetry in English Translation. (In Progress)
Iran Nameh: Journal of the Foundation for Iranian
Studies (Washington, DC), vol. XXII, nos. 1-2 (2005).
Naqd va Arman/Critique & Vision: An Afghan Journal of the Social Sciences and Humanities (1995-2003).
