Publications

Books

• Sorani Kurdish: An Elementary Textbook (CELCAR at Indiana University-Bloomington, 2024 (forthcoming).
• Comparative Literature in Iran and the Arab World, 1903-2012 (first edition, Samt Press, Tehran 2013; second edition, Egyptian Cultural Academy, Cairo 2017).
• It Is Only Sound that Remains: The Life and Legacy of Forough Farrokhzad with a Translation of Two Collections of Her Poetry. Erbil: Salahaddin University Press, 2016.

Edited Collections

• The Oxford Handbook of Kurdish Linguistics. co-editor. Oxford University Press, 2024.

Articles/Essays

• “Heirs of Poetry and Rain’: Farzad Kamangar’s Letter from Prison to His Students,” Barricade: A Journal of Antifascism and Translation, vol.5, pp. 101-17, with Tyler Fisher, 2023.
• “Khayyām’s Melodies, Kafka’s Message, and Hidāyat’s Epilogue: The Kafkaesque Legacy in Persian Literature,” International Journal of Persian Literature, Penn State University Press, vol. 7: 33–61, 2022.
• “The Geography of Comparative Literature in Turkey,” Tajseer (Qatar University Press,) vol. 4 (1), pp 51-64, 2022.
• "Kurds, Jews, and Kurdistani Jews: Historic Homelands, Perceptions of Parallels in Persecution, and Alliances of Analogy,” special issue “Are Muslim-Jewish Relations Improving in the 21st Century?" Religions, MDPI, Basel, Switzerland, 13(3): 253, pp 1-13, 2022.
• “Internal Colonialism and the Discipline of Comparative Literature in Iran,” Revista Brasileira de Literatura Comparada, vol. 23, n.43, pp 94-117, 2021.
• Kurdish as aStateless Language in the U.S.,” Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, vol. 30, pp 48-101, 2021.
• “Majnun Layla's Roundabout Migrations through Comparative Literature and Post-colonial Interdisciplinarity,” Literature & Interdisciplinary Research, 2 (4), pp 164-190, 2021.
• “From Cairo to Tehran: The Reception of Arabic Comparative Literature in Iran,” Āfāq al-Ḥaḍarah al-Islāmyyah, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, 22 (1), pp 105-140, 2020.
• “Arabic Comparative Literature:Intersections with West Asian Literature,” Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics (New Paradigms in the Study of Middle Eastern Literatures), American University in Cairo, no. 35, pp. 40–67, 2015.
• “From Ma'arrat al-Nu'mān to Shīrāz: ‘Abu al-'Alā’ al-Ma'arrī’s Influence in Fereydūn Tavallalī,” The Journal of Critical and Comparative Literature, Razi University, vol. 4, no. 16, pp. 63-84, 2015.
• “Grim Legacy: Image of Kurds in Turkish Culture,” NuBihar Akademi (international peer-reviewed journal of Kurdish Studies) vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 58-68, 2014.
• “The Image of Damascus in the Poetry of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Rūmī,” al-Turath al-‘Arabi, Arab Writers Union, Damascus, vol. 123, no.124, pp. 259-74, 2012.
• “The Image of Arabs in Persian School Books,” Mukaddime, Mardin Artuklu University, vol. 4. pp.81-110, 2011.
• “The Influence of Russian Formalism in Comparative Literature,” The Journal of the Iranian Association of Arabic Language and Literature, Tarbiat Modarress University, vol. 10, no. 3, pp.19-37, 2009.
• “Narcissism in the Poetry of 'Omar Ibn ’Abī Rabī'ah,” coauthored with Hamed Sedghi and Malek Pirzadnya, Āfāq al-Ḥaḍarah al-Islāmyyah, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, no.22, 387-414, 2008.

Book Sections/Chapters

• “Kurdish Language and Prose,” The Oxford Handbook of Kurdish Linguistics, 2024*.
• “Kurdish as a Heritage Language,” (co-author), The Oxford Handbook of Kurdish Linguistics, 2024*.
• “Pioneers of Comparative Literature between Arabic and Persian Literatures (Jordan: Yousef Bakkar),” Al-Kitābah cala Al-Kitābah: Qirā’āt fī Fikr al-Nāqid Yusef Bakkār, Edited by Yousef Bakkar, Jordan: Dar Faḍā’āt, Vol. 2, 107-114, 2021.
• “From the Past to the Future, East to the West: Yousef Bakkar and Comparative Literature,” Malʼā al-Sanābil: Dirāsāt Muhdāt ʼilā Yusef Bakkar, ed. 'Abbās 'Abdulḥalīm 'Abbās (Beirut: Dār Ṣādīr), pp. 411-26, 2014.
• “Theory, Time and Space in ComparativeLiterature in Iran,” Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress of Comparative Literature (Turkey: Kirikkale University Press,) pp.321-38, 2013*.
• “Comparative Investigations between Persian and Arabic: Past, Present, and Future,” Proceedings of the National Congress of Persian-Arabic Comparative Literature (Kermanshah: Razi University Press,) pp. 437-67, 2012*.

Translation

• “Bliss,” translation of a poem by Jhila Hosseini, Poet Lore, vol. 120, Winter/Spring 2024, p.36. With Tyler Fisher.
• “Newroz,” translation of Piremerd’s poem on theKurdish New Year. Kurdistan Chronicle, vol. 1, no. 2, 2023, pp. 58-59. With Tyler Fisher.
• “Homeless in Eden: The Importance of Malaye Jaziri’s Poetry,” Kurdistan Chronicle, 1, 2023, pp. 67-69. With Tyler Fisher.
  
• “Night Story,” “Question,” “Town,” “Longing,” and “Convict,” translated from Kurdish. Y’alla (Journal of Middle Eastern Literature in translation, Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin). December 2021. With Tyler Fisher.
• “Forever a Kurd,” “Poetic Justice,” and “Dance of Death.” Essential Voices: Poetry of Iran and Its Diaspora, edited by Christopher Nelson, Green Linden Press, 2021, pp. 133-134, 178. With Tyler Fisher.
• “Four Ghazals.” My Moon Is the OnlyMoon: The Poetry of Nali, edited by David Shook, Kashkul Books, 2021, pp. 83-95. With Tyler Fisher.
• “Skylight”and “The Heart is a Moth Aflame,” translation of Kurdish rubai and ghazal by Malaye Jaziri. Poet Lore, December 2020. With Tyler Fisher.
• “Two Ghazals by Nali,” translation of Kurdish ghazal byNali. The Brooklynrail, October 2020. With Tyler Fisher.
• Bird of Breath: Four Rubai,” translation of Kurdish rubai by Malaye Jaziri. The Bangalore Review, June 2020. With Tyler Fisher.

Awards

• Recipient, UCF 2023 Reach for the Stars Award, ($30,000 research grant for three years), 2023-2026.
  
• Co-recipient, Presidency of the KRGI, The Oxford Handbook of Kurdish Linguistics, ($18,000), 2022-2023.
· Co-Principal (Co-PI) Investigator with Günther Jikeli & Assad Al-Saleh, Indiana University-Bloomington, “Follow-up Research Project Attitudes Among Syrians in Germany,” ($ 21,500), 2020-2021.
• Co-recipient, with Assad Al-Saleh, Günther Jikeli, and Alvin Rosenfeld, Indiana University President’s International Research Award; “Syrian and Iraqi Refugees in Germany: Antisemitism, Islamism, and Integration,” ($50,000), 2017-2018.
• Recipient, U.S. Department of Education Grant via the Center for the Study of the Middle East at Indiana University-Bloomington, Sorani/Central Kurdish: An Elementary Textbook, ($63,000), 2014-2015.
• Bilimsel Araştırma Projeleri (Scientific Research Projects Fund), Mardin Artuklu University, Turkey, “Comparative Literature in Iran and the Arab World 1903-2012,” ($12,000), 2011-2013.

Courses

• Fall 2025
• Spring 2026