Laleh Atashi

[ 1 ] - Rhetoric, Comedy, or Shock? Bruce Gilley’s Case of Anachronism

[ 2 ] - Semiotics of Power and Knowledge in Nasir Khusrow's Travelogue

Nasir Khosrow embarks upon a seven year journey in order to come to terms with his spiritual crisis. The quest was the inevitable outcome of the tensions and conflicts between Nasir and the institutionalized forms of power and knowledge. The tensions lead to the formation of a series of binary oppositions—verbal and nonverbal—within the text of his travelogue. The researchers have analyzed the ...

[ 3 ] - Cultural Translation: A Critical Analysis of William Jones's Translation of Hafez

The humanist mission of translation is believed to be rooted in the universal humane urge to spread knowledge and to eliminate misunderstanding among people as well as to generate a broader space for communication. What is absent from this philanthropist definition is the workings of power and the political agendas that influence the translator's stance and his/her interpretation of the text th...