Author

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Iago Gocheleishvili, PhD, is a senior lecturer of Persian Studies at Cornell University. He has been designing and teaching university-level courses in less commonly taught languages, including Persian, since 2003. Gocheleishvili designed the Persian language section at Cornell University, and has been in charge of curriculum design and teaching Persian language at the university’s Department of Near Eastern Studies since 2006. He has carried out fieldwork throughout Iran and authored over a dozen of academic publications in the fields of Persian and Iranian studies. He has also been teaching courses on the state, society and culture of modern Iran.