- Chess with the Doomsday Machine
by Habib
Ahmadzadeh, translated by Paul Sprachman, Mazda Publishers, 2007.
- Journey to Heading 270 Degrees
by Ahmad Dehqan and
Paul Sprachman (Translator), Mazda Publishers, 2006.
- A Man of Many
Worlds
by Cyrus Ghani (Editor) and
Paul Sprachman (Translator), Mage Publishers, 2005.
A translation
of the memoirs of Dr. Qasem Ghani, the
Iranian representative to the convening session of the United Nations,
the ambassador to Turkey and Egypt in the 1930s and 1940s.
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Language and Culture in Persian
Mazda Publishers, 2002
Language and Culture in Persian lies at the intersection of what
we ordinarily associate with language learning, standard vocabulary,
idiom, grammar, etc. and a set of shared assumptions about the world
that we call culture. The book is about what readers of Persian
know but rarely express. It asks the question: What understandings
do readers share that enable them to comprehend skillful writing in
the language? Common sense of this sort comes in two ways:
(1) explicitly in the form of the alphabet, morphology, syntax,
punctuation,
and other obvious aspects of writing, and (2) implicitly in the form
of a shared set of basic facts and ideas that allows readers to construct
the meanings of texts. You can find out more about this book by
clicking
HERE
- Suppressed Persian
Mazda Publishers, 1995. A translation of Persian literature
which has been
suppressed over the centuries. This volume is an anthology of selected
pieces of poetry and prose that deeply offend long-established
standards
of good taste and morality in Iran. It presents unprintables from the
works
of eight of the most important writers of Persian literature. These
include,
Sanai of Ghazni (12th century), Jalal al-Din Rumi (13th century),
Suzani of Samarkand (12th Century) Obayd-e Zakani (14th century),
Sadi of Shiraz (13th century). The anthology also contains off-color
quatrains by a contemporary of Omar Khayyam, the poetess Mahsati of
Ganja,
and an epic invective by the modern poet Iraj Mirza (d. 1926).
You can find a description of it by clicking
HERE .
- I have also written a book about symbolism and Chinese characters
in the paintings of Dorothy Yung: Dorothy Yung, Recent Works 3-18
March, 1995
- I am a regular contributor of articles and book reviews to
Iran Shenasi, A Journal of Iranian Studies.
