New Book Review by Emily Raboteau in in The Nation

The Good LifeWhat can we learn from the history of utopianism? Professor Emily Raboteau  reviews  Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life, by Kristen R. Ghodsee https://www.thenation.com/article/society/kristen-ghodsee-utopia/ In the desert of Saudi Arabia, between Jordan and the Red Sea, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is building a …

New story by Salar Abdoh in “Fiction”

Borges’s Search For Averroes by Salar Abdoh AT THE END OF A STORY he wrote about the greatest medieval commentator of Aristotle, Borges noted: The instant I stop believing in him, Averroes disappears. As Borges observed, Averroes, who knew everything, could not understand one thing, and that was theater. And so it happened that when …

Reading and Conversation with Rahna Reiko Rizzuto

CCNY’s MFA in Creative WritingReading Series Fall 2023 A Reading and Conversation with Rahna Reiko Rizzuto — Guest Professor, Novelist and Memoirist Monday, October 16, 20235:00 – 7:00pmRifkind Center, NA 6/316 The MFA in Creative Writing at City College invites you to a reading and conversation with Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, a guest professor, novelist and …

Salar Abdoh’s article published in The Atlantic

In their article How to Be a Man in Iran, published in The Atlantic this month, CCNY Professor Salar Abdoh and Tehran-based journalist Vali Khalili describe how the return of morality police to city streets is a testing ground for women’s rights and everyone’s courage.

The Diaries of Franz Kafka

May 8th, 5-7  pm
Rifkind Center, NAC 6/316

Ross Benjamin
on his new translation of

THE DIARIES OF FRANZ KAFKA

in conversation with Vaclav Paris