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Introduction: Charting the Evolution of English and Anglophone Writing in Asia

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This introductory article explores the history of the English language and literatures in the Asian ‘Outer Circle’ countries, or English in its ‘second diaspora’, focusing primarily on literature from its beginnings to the present. Due to space limitations, the scope is further narrowed to poetry and the novel – the two genres that, arguably ...
Mohammad A. Quayum
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Herder in the lab: Maximizing “cultural density” in multilingual training data for an open‐science AI project

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 3, December 2026.
Abstract This paper provides ethnographic analysis of interactions between volunteers in an open‐science AI project entrusted with preparing multilingual text for use in fine‐tuning a pretrained LLM. Volunteers were encouraged to entextualize translated text into structured corpora and to write and edit prompt‐completion pairings in over 100 languages.
Joseph Wilson
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The keys to the garden: Capital, class, and the repurposing of Persian mystical poetry in Los Angeles

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 3, December 2026.
Abstract This article traces the social life of medieval Persian poetry as it is repurposed within Los Angeles's Iranian diaspora. Based on 5 years of immersive ethnography in private erfān classes and mystical assemblies, I argue these gatherings function as contemporary diasporic courts, mobilizing core texts within a spiritual marketplace structured
Zia Khoshsirat
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How weather got its words: a history of meteorological English – Part 1: Old English to the Age of Discovery

Weather, Volume 81, Issue 9, Page 306-311, September 2026.
The English language is a gargantuan, gluttonous beast. It has become extraordinary among its peers in its powers of assimilation – such that we rarely consider the diverse origins of the words we use. In this two‐part paper, we will explore these origins, including the Pontic‐Caspian steppe, the British Empire, latinophone scientists and a TV show. We
Kieran M. R. Hunt
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A Comparative Study of Kurdish and Persian Literature on Grounds of Prosody and Meter

پژوهشنامه ادبیات کردی, 2015
In terms of scope and diversity of topic as well as historical antiquity, literature of the Middle East is outstanding among world literatures, and Persian literature, in particular, has acquired a special reputation in this regard.
Seyed As’ad Sheikh Ahmadi
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A Comparative Study of Story and Narrative Elements in Classical and Contemporary Persian Narrative Ghazal [PDF]

Literary Arts
In the classic Persian narrative ghazals, in addition to expressing romantic issues, there is also a strong presence in mysticism, and examples of it can be seen in the Attar and Rumi’s divan. In contemporary Persian poetry, poets such as Simin Behbahani
Mahdi Rostami, Alimohammad Mahmoudi
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Rethinking Political Islam in Iran: Contestation, Authority, and Reform

Middle East Policy, Volume 33, Issue 3, Autumn (Fall) 2026.
Abstract Political Islam in Iran is frequently portrayed in Western scholarship and policy discourse as a unified and rigid ideological system rooted in the 1979 Islamic Revolution. However, this article contends that it operates as a plural and internally contested field in which state‐directed, reformist‐clerical, and civic interpretations compete ...
Nagapushpa Devendra
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CRISIS OF READER IN THE PERSIAN POETRY OF THE NINETIES WITH EMPHASIS ON RHETORICAL-LINGUISTIC REASONS [PDF]

Актуальные проблемы филологии и педагогической лингвистики, 2017
In the history of the Iran contemporary literature, the flow of poetry, known as the 70s, has a special place. Faces such as Ali Abdul Razaei, Mehrdad Fallah, Behzad Khayat, On one hand , and Reza Baraheni and his students, on the other hand, New ...
Baloo Farzad A., Bafekr Fateme H.
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A Comparative Discourse Analysis of Mehdi Akhavān-Sāles’ Defense of the Poetic Style of Nimā Yūshij [PDF]

مطالعات بین‌رشته‌ای ادبیات، هنر و علوم انسانی
This article aims to indicate how Akhavān-Sāles- the greatest defender of Nimāei poetry- introduced Nimāei poetry as the superior poetry and norm against the rival and sometimes contradictory poetic currents of his period.
Kulthum Miriasl
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A “Tech First” Approach to Foreign Policy? The Three Meanings of Tech Diplomacy

Global Policy, Volume 17, Issue S4, Page S45-S55, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Scholars have recently argued that international politics is plagued by instability as the world rapidly transitions from one crisis to another. This state of “Permacrisis,” or permanent crises between states, is driven by technological innovations which create new kinds of crises and drive competitions between adversarial states.
Ilan Manor
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