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Book SynopsisIn 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. Yarkbakhsh 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.Yarkbakhsh 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.
Table of ContentsChapter 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
