Publications
“The Quiet Part of Sanctions: Changing Social Relations”
Sanctions as Siege Forum, Third Space
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, 21(1): 132-137.
Read article“Entangled Lives: Enduring Under Sanctions”
Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development 14(2): 264-281.
Read article“Reflections in Reconciliation and Revolution”
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 42(2): 538-540.
Read article“Everyday Forgiveness: The Practice and Politics of Mercy”
HAU: Journal of Anthropological Theory 11(2): 800-806.
Read article“Lessons from the Suffrage Movement in Iran”
Yale Law Journal - Forum on 100th Anniversary of Women's Suffrage - the 19th Amendment Volume 129: 496-511.
Read article“The Law Knows No Shame: On Robert Redfield's 'Primitive Law' and the Persistence of Honor in Contemporary Societies”
American Anthropologist 121(3):729-733.
Read article“On Not Saving the Muslim Women (and Men)”
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, Special Forum: "Trump's Presidency and Middle East Women's Studies" 13(3): 479-482.
Read article“Framing Rights: Women and Family Law in Pre- and Post-Revolutionary Iran”
New Middle Eastern Studies 5:1-18.
Read article“When Blood Has Spilled: Gender, Honor, and Compensation in Iranian Criminal Sanctioning”
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 35(2): 307–325.
Read article“Whence the Law: Politics of ‘Women's Rights,’ Regime Change and the Vestiges of Reform in the Islamic Republic of Iran”
Radical History Review 101: 42-58.
Read article“The Measure of Mercy: Islamic Justice, Sovereign Power, and Human Rights in Iran”
Cultural Anthropology 21(4): 570-602.
Read article“Islamico-civil ‘rights talk’: women, subjectivity, and law in Iranian family court”
American Ethnologist 33(2): 191-209.
Read article“Doing the ‘Rights’ Thing: Methods and Challenges of Fieldwork in Iran”
Iranian Studies 37(4): 675-684.
Read article“The Enduring Logic of Mercy: Humanitarianism’s Eclipse of Human Rights”
In Reckoning with Law in Excess: Mobilization, Confrontation, Refusal.
M. Goodale and O. Zenker, eds. London: Cambridge University Press, 2025.
“Benevolent Arts: The Persistence of Mercy in Humanitarian Logics”
In Care in a Time of Humanitarianism: Stories of Refuge, Aid, and Repair in the Global South.
A. Osanloo and C. deBergh Robinson, eds. London: Berghahn Books 2024.
“Introduction: Care in a Time of Humanitarianism”
Co-authored with C. deBergh Robinson, in Care in a Time of Humanitarianism: Stories of Refuge, Aid, and Repair in the Global South.
A. Osanloo and C. deBergh Robinson, eds. London: Berghahn Books 2024.
“Subjecting the State to Seeing: Charity, Security, and the Dispossessed in Iran's Islamic Republic”
In Governing Gifts: Faith, Charity, and the Security State
(School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series).
E. James, ed., Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2019. Pp. 59-77.
“Righteous Injuries: Victim's Rights and Offender's Suffering in Iranian Criminal Sanctioning”
In Injury and Injustice: Cultural Practices of Harm and Redress.
A. Bloom, D. Engel, and M. McCann, eds., London: Cambridge University
Press, 2018. Pp. 96-114.
“Evidence, Certainty, and Doubt: Judge's Knowledge in Iranian Criminal Sanctioning”
In Truth, Intentionality and Evidence: Anthropological
Approaches to Crime and Tort.
Yazid Ben-Hounet and Deborah Puccio-Den, eds., London:
Routledge Press, 2017. Pp. 28-45.
“Women and Criminal Law in Post-Khomeini Iran”
In Social Change in Post-Khomeini Iran.
Mahmood Monshipouri, ed., London: Hurst Publishers, 2016. Pp. 91-112.
“Crime and Reconciliation: Women's Peace Initiatives in the Islamic Republic of Iran”
In Women and Peace in the Islamic World:
Gender, Agency and Influence.
Yasmin Saikia and Chad Haines, eds. London: I.B. Tauris, 2014. Pp. 224-245.
“Les pratiques sociales et légales du pardon dans le système judiciaire iranien”
In Justice, Religion, Réconciliation.
Yazid Ben Hounet, Sandrine Lefranc & Deborah Puccio-Den, eds.
Paris: Editions L'Harmattan. Collection « La religion en question », 2014. Pp. 83-94.
“Khomeini's Legacy on Women's Rights and Roles in the Islamic Republic of Iran”
In A Critical Introduction to Khomeini.
Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2014. Pp. 239-255.
“From Status to Rights: The Shifting Dimensions of Women's Affairs and Family Law in Iran”
In Feminist Activism, Women's Rights and Legal Reform.
Mulki Al-Sharmani, ed. London: ZED Books, 2014. Pp. 125-150.
“Human Rights by Any Other Name”
In Iran Confronting 21st Century Challenges: In Honour
of Mohammad-Reza Djalili.
H.E. Chehabi, Farhad Khosrowkhavar, and Clement Therme, eds., Los Angeles,
CA: Mazda, 2013. Pp. 79-95.
“Contesting Governance: Authority, Protest, and Rights Talk in Post-Republican Iran”
In Comparative Authoritarianisms: Syria and Iran.
Steven Heydemann and Reinoud Leenders, eds. Stanford, CA: Stanford University
Press, 2012. Pp. 127-142.
“What a focus on ‘family’ means in the Islamic Republic of Iran”
In Family Law in Islam: Divorce, Marriage
and Women in the Muslim World.
Maaike Voorhoeve, ed., London: I.B. Tauris, 2012. Pp. 51-76.
“Iran”
In Case Studies in Comparative Politics.
David J. Samuels, ed. New York: Pearson Press, 2012. Pp. 407-447.
“Khoon Reekht: Tahleelee Jensi az Kayfar va Mojazaat dar Iran”
(Blood Has Spilled: A Gendered Analysis of Crime and Punishment in Iran) S. Shahshahani, trans. Farhang va Ensan (Culture and Being), Tehran, Iran, 5(2): 103-122.
“Refusing Mercy: The Hunger Strike Controversy as a Challenge to the State's Monopoly on Violence in Iran”
In Policing and Prisons in the Middle East.
Laleh Khalili and Jillian Schwedler, eds. New York: Columbia University
Press, 2010. Pp. 263-277.
“Lessons from the Suffrage Movement in Iran”
In Yale Law Journal - Forum on 100th Anniversary
of Women's Suffrage – the 19th Amendment.
Volume 129: 496-511, January 20, 2020.
“Redress: Rights and Other Remedies, A Comment on David Engel's Article on Rights Consciousness”
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 19 (2): 495-505.
Read article“Courts”
In International Encyclopedia of Anthropology: Anthropology Beyond Text.
Hilary Callan, ed., London: John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018.
Islam and the Rule of Justice: Image and Reality in Muslim Law and Culture.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018, Anthropology Quarterly, 92(3): 955-961.
Read essayChina and Islam: The Prophet, the Party, and the Law.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016, Law and Society Review, 52(3):816-820.
Read essayProzak Diaries: Psychiatry and Generational Memory in Iran.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016, Iranian Studies.
Read essayWomen in the Mosque: A History of Legal Thought and Social Practice.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2014, Journal of the Society for Contemporary Thought and Islamicate World.
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