Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Writing History in the Middle East: Interview with Afsaneh Najmabadi

AFSANEH NAJMABADI is Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. She is author of several books, including Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards (2005) and Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran (2014). Contact: najmabad@fas.harvard.edu.

Thanks to Mafaz Al-Suwaidan for transcribing this interview.