Excerpt below are from: Arthur, Kate. “‘You will say they are Persian but let them be changed’: Robert and Teresa Sherley’s Embassy to the court of James.” In MacLean, G. ed. Britain and Muslim World: Historical Perspectives. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars…
So far, this has been the most challenging part of this project. It’s detective work, following leads and threads, often in endnotes and footnotes. There are only two articles, both written by Bernadette Andrea, that somewhat feature Sampsonia (Sanpsonia) aka…
I attended a yoga workshop titled Healing Physical and Emotional Traumas at the Mind Body Fitness conference in Toronto on April 26 and 27. The somatic work was much needed. Not only did I open physically, but the immersion opened…
[updated 08/05/2014 with additional sources] Although Sampsonia (also spelled Sanpsonia), a Circassian woman who married Robert Sherley and went to Europe with him is not the first Persian in Europe, she is the first woman whose name is mentioned in…
These selections are from Emily Said Ruete’s Memoirs of an Arabian Princess. She was born in Zanaibar as Princess Salme bint Said ibn Sultan al-Bu Saidi, a.k.a Sayyida Salme. Some bio and version notes here, and part 1 of selection…
[Show slideshow] Born in 1844 to a Circassian woman in the harem of Sultan of Zanzibar and Oman, Sayyida Salme got involved in palace politics and succession wars at the age of 15. Later, while she was living in Zanzibar…
My friend and adviser, historian Dr Mansour Bonakdarian, recommended this book to me early in our conversation about this project a few months ago: Zerubavel, Eviatar. Time Maps: Collective Memory and the Social Shape of the Past. Chicago: University of…
I’m going to keep the weekly review as regular feature. This was a short week due to holiday Monday. It is a novel practice for me to take formal holidays off. I am experimenting with being a “regular” worker, you…
این گزیده هایی از متن فارسی است که به زودی توسط بنیاد ایران شناسی دانشگاه تورنتو برای اولین بار چاپ خواهد شد شگرفنامه ولایت: سفرنامه میرزا اعتصام الدین باجپوری به ولایت انگلیس. به کوشش محمد توکلی با همکاری وحید طلوعی.…