Claudia Yaghoobi is a Roshan Institute Associate Professor and the director of the Center for the Middle East and Islamic Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of Temporary Marriage in Iran: Gender and Body Politics in Modern Persian Literature and Film (Cambridge UP 2020) and Subjectivity in ‘Attar, Persian Sufism, and European Mysticism (Purdue UP 2017). She is the editor of The #MeToo Movement in Iran: Reporting Sexual Violence and Harassment forthcoming from Bloomsbury/IB Tauris in 2023. She is co-editor with Janet Afary of the Sex, Marriage and Culture in the Middle East book series.

This book blends scholarly and personal history with literature, film and art, thereby illustrating how questions of identity are navigated by Iranian Armenians, both in Iran and in exile. It is a fresh and nuanced study that approaches the subjects of minorities, race and migration through a non-western lens.

• List of Figures Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration and TranslationPrologue: A Turning Point: The Iran-Iraq War Introduction: From Nationalism in Exile to Transnationalism in Diaspora 1 Diaspora, Nostos and Longing 2 Maintaining Heritage and Assimilation 3 Language as an Ethno-National Identity Marker 4 History, Memory and Collective Consciousness 5 Transnational Diasporic Identity Conclusion: Negotiating Identity via Creativity Epilogue: Where is Home? Bibliography Index

Claudia Yaghoobi is a Roshan Institute Associate Professor and the director of the Center for the Middle East and Islamic Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of Temporary Marriage in Iran: Gender and Body Politics in Modern Persian Literature and Film (Cambridge UP 2020) and Subjectivity in ‘Attar, Persian Sufism, and European Mysticism (Purdue UP 2017). She is the editor of The #MeToo Movement in Iran: Reporting Sexual Violence and Harassment forthcoming from Bloomsbury/IB Tauris in 2023. She is co-editor with Janet Afary of the Sex, Marriage and Culture in the Middle East book series.

This book blends scholarly and personal history with literature, film and art, thereby illustrating how questions of identity are navigated by Iranian Armenians, both in Iran and in exile. It is a fresh and nuanced study that approaches the subjects of minorities, race and migration through a non-western lens.

• List of Figures Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration and TranslationPrologue: A Turning Point: The Iran-Iraq War Introduction: From Nationalism in Exile to Transnationalism in Diaspora 1 Diaspora, Nostos and Longing 2 Maintaining Heritage and Assimilation 3 Language as an Ethno-National Identity Marker 4 History, Memory and Collective Consciousness 5 Transnational Diasporic Identity Conclusion: Negotiating Identity via Creativity Epilogue: Where is Home? Bibliography Index