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Shams publicly renounced compulsory Hejab in 2011 which immediately made her a target of a state-sponsored online smear campaign . Ever since she has been an outspoken feminist activist against compulsory Hejab and anti-women laws in Iran and elsewhere. Womanhood, Life in exile, migration, politics,
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focuses on this topic. She is also written essays on the relationship of poetry and power and the social history of
Persian literature in Iran. The history of cultural organizations in the post-revolution period as well as the role taken by the state in literary production have been amongst her
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Latifeh Yarshater award in 2016 for unique and groundbreaking developments in the form of Ghazal. Shams is currently a standing faculty member at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and a board member of the Middle East Centre at the University of Pennsylvania. Her
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University Press in 2021 is the first study of poetic legitimacy and the role of poetry and poetics in the political ideology of the Islamic Republic.'
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Fatemeh Shams was awarded as the best young
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A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-option Under the
Islamic Republic
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A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-Option Under Islamic Republic
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A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-Option Under Islamic Republic
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Persian contemporary poet, literary scholar, and translator
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Life and Legends Fatemeh Shams, Translated by Dick Davis
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A New Divan: A Lyrical Dialogue Between East and West
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Fatemeh Shams in Conversation with Brooke Gladstone
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607:"Fatemeh Shams .بخش نخست شعرخوانی فاطمه شمس"
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