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This panel will feature Professor Ahoo Najafian, Ira T. Wender Postdoctoral Scholar in Middle East Studies at Carleton College, and Professor Wessam Elmeliji, Arabic Professor and Assistant Professor of the Classical Mediterranean and Middle East, and will explore the continuity of Persian literature and art into modern Iranian culture and politics, focusing particularly on the renowned poetry of Hafiz and the classical Persian folklore of Khosrow and Shirin, and the ways that they translate into contemporary Iranian politics and cinema.