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Shiva Balaghi

Academic coordinator of the Area Global Initiative

East Asia Center

Center for Middle East Studies

and Latin America and Iberian Studies

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Dr. Shiva Balaghi is a cultural historian specializing in the visual culture of the Middle East and its diasporas. She is Academic Coordinator of the Area Global Initiative at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She previously served as Senior Advisor to the President of the American University in Cairo for Arts and Cultural Programs and taught History and History of Art at NYU and Brown University for nearly two decades. Her books include Picturing Iran: Art, Society and Revolution (co-edited), Reconstructing Gender in the Middle East (co-edited), and Saddam Hussein: A Biography. Her writing has also appeared in Artforum, Hyperallergic, MERIP, and Iranian Studies. Balaghi has curated over a dozen art exhibitions in museums and galleries in the US, Europe, and the Middle East.

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Books by Shiva Balaghi

Saddam Hussein: A Biography
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3.92 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2005 — 7 editions

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian: Infinite Possibility. Mirror Works and Drawings 1974-2014
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2014

Generation 1.5
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009

Nationalism and cultural production in Iran, 1848--1906.
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating

Parviz Tanavoli: v. 009: Monograph
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010

Parviz Tanavoli
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Sadik Kwaish Alfraji /anglais
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Pouran Jinchi
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Biography

Dr. Shiva Balaghi is a cultural historian specializing in the visual culture of the Middle East and its diasporas. She is Academic Coordinator of the Area Global Initiative at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She previously served as Senior Advisor to the President of the American University in Cairo for Arts and Cultural Programs and taught History and History of Art at NYU and Brown University for nearly two decades. Balaghi has written widely on Iranian art, including essays for the Guggenheim, the Warhol Museum, the Hood Museum at Dartmouth, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Her writing has also appeared in Artforum, Ibraaz, Hyperallergic, MERIP, and Iranian Studies. Her books include Picturing Iran: Art, Society and Revolution (co-edited), Parviz Tanavoli (co-edited), Reconstructing Gender in the Middle East (co-edited), and Saddam Hussein: A Biography. Balaghi has curated over a dozen art exhibitions in museums and galleries in the US, Europe, and the Middle East, most recently “A Boundless Drop to a Boundless Ocean” an exhibit of Iranian an