Prof. Behnaz Mirzai

Prof@Brock U, Author & filmmaker Africans & slavery in Iran Founder of

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My interview about my recent book:
https://t.co/F8sKMncZEZ

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My previous book interview:
https://t.co/1SI9bbz5GX

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@SKordasti بسیار عالی

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@EsmaeiliElyas Thanks

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My latest book and its PROSE award

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News on my book award #africa #slavery #indianocean

https://t.co/cv2RIVUUZ4

[University of Toronto Press @utpress]

The Life of an Enslaved African in the Ottoman Empire and Iran is a Finalist for the 2026 PROSE Awards in World History, awarded by @AmericanPublish.

@BehnazMirzai invites readers to reflect on legacies of racial #inequality & ongoing struggles for freedom in the modern world.

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Excited my book "The Life of an Enslaved African in the Ottoman Empire and Iran" has been selected as a Finalist in the World History Category for the 2026 PROSE Awards @BrockUniversity @AmericanPublish #africandiaspora #slavery #MiddleEastern.

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My previous book interview:
https://t.co/1SI9bbz5GX

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Interesting review of my recent book in the context of #slavery #Islam #middleeast:

The extraordinary travails of Maḥbōb Qirvanian https://t.co/XCdOfW141t

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آهنگ با مفهوم زیبا

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[george @StokeyyG2]

In England, you’d assume that every football game, every train and every road would be closed in these conditions.

In Ottawa, Canada a player has just scored an overhead kick to level the game 👏🤣

Superb.

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Edward A. Alpers, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London,
Vol. 69, No. 1 (2006), 198.
Review of Abolition and Its Aftermath in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia

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In 2006, Edward Alpers, the distinguished scholar wrote: "Behnaz Mirzai presents the first scholarly account in English of the way in which both British
external and Persian internal factors combined to shape the important 1848 abolitionist farman
that marked an important

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signpost in the movement towards complete abolition of slavery in
1926 in Imperial Persia. Mirzai's research is based upon previously unexploited Persian sources
that open up an entirely new comparative context for the study of slavery and abolition in an
important Muslim society

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Conference will be held @BrockUniversity Canada.
For more information see: https://t.co/MXePxKa5bF

[University of Toronto Press @utpress]

For the @NewBooksNetwork podcast, Morteza Hajizadeh speaks with UTP author @BehnazMirzai about her new book Life of an Enslaved African in the Ottoman Empire and Iran: The Autobiography of Mahboob Qirvanian.
Listen here: https://t.co/pMXoV3gHte
#Podcast #CriticalTheory #NewBooks

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@utpress

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My podcast interview about my recent book.
https://t.co/F8sKMncrPr