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Khodadad Rezakhani

Khodadad Rezakhani is Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Department of Iranian Studies of the Free University of Berlin.

MER Article

Talking Class in Tehroon

Persian, like any other language, is laced with references to class, both blatant and subtle. With idioms and metaphors, Iranians can identify and situate others, and thus themselves, within hierarchies of social status and privilege, both real and imagined. Some class-related terms can be traced ba

Rasmus Christian Elling, Khodadad Rezakhani • 9 min read