Shahrokh Meskoob

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Shahrokh Meskoub (Persian: شاهرخ مسکوب) (January 11, 1924[1] in Babol, Iran – April 12, 2005, in Paris, France), was an Iranian writer, translator, social critic, literary historian, and university professor. Meskoob is considered a preeminent Shahnameh scholar… more

Shahrokh Meskoob was an Iranian writer and intellectual, who was born in Babol, on the Caspian coast, in 1924 and died in Paris in 2005. Imprisoned in the mid-1950s for leftist activities…more

Shahrokh Meskoob (1924-2005) occupies a special, and in many ways unique, place among the Iranian intellectuals of his generation. While the principal focus of his work was the study of Persian literary traditions…. more

INTERVIEWER of Harvard University Oral History Project… more

 

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The materials in this Spotlight exhibit form a small sample of materials from the Shahrokh Meskoob Archive that resides in Special Collections at Stanford University…more

Scholars discuss the life and work of Shahrokh Meskoob, one of modern Iran’s most respected and acclaimed public intellectuals, literary critics, and memoirists… more