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In Iranian Hospitality, Afghan Marginality, Elisabeth Yarbakhsh unpacks ideas around culture, identity, and the relationship between Iranian citizens and Afghan refugees living in Shiraz, Iran, and surrounding areas. Yarbakhsh highlights the ways in which shifting policies and practices toward refugees over the past forty years have run parallel to the transitive notions of what it means to be Iranian. Yarbakhsh exposes the complex interplay of identity and hospitality as it emerges out of variously competing and intersecting Islamic, historical, and literary narratives of Iranian identity, carefully illustrating how these factors circumscribe Afghan refugee life in the city of Shiraz.
List of contents
Chapter One: Afghanistan and Iran: A Shared History
Chapter Two: Placing Hospitality
Chapter Three: Hospitality, Iranian Style
Chapter Four: Modes of Hospitality
Chapter Five: In the Shrine Precinct
Chapter Six: Toward Persepolis
Chapter Seven: In Search of the Real Shiraz
Chapter Eight: Oases of Hospitality
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By Elisabeth Yarbakhsh
Summary
Iranian Hospitality, Afghan Marginality examines the nexus of hospitality and nationhood in diverse iterations of Iranian identity, opening spaces for recognizing the self and other in the everyday interactions between Iranian citizens and Afghan refugees at sites of national significance in and around the city of Shiraz.
