Dr. Kamran Talattof’s 2011 book, Modernity, Sexuality, and Ideology in Iran: the Life and Legacy of a Popular Female Artist, was selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title, and was announced in January 2012 issue of Choice Magazine. The Latifeh Yarshater Award Committee has also unanimously chosen Karmran Talattof’s Modernity, Sexuality, and Ideology in Iran: the Life and Legacy of a Popular Female Artist, and Farzaneh Milani’s Words, Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement both published by the University of Syracuse Press in 2011, as joint recipients of the 2012 award. Kamran Talattof is professor of Persian and Middle Eastern and North African Studies at University of Arizona.
