I am a professor in the Program in Literature at Duke University. A cultural critic. A media theorist. And a social strategist. I live online.

Author of five award winning books:

Displaced Allegories: Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema

Representing the Unpresentable: Historical Images of National Reform from the Qajars to the Islamic Republic of Iran

#Iranelection:Hashtag solidarity and the transformation of online life

My most recent book:

Whisper Tapes: Kate Millett in Iran

Also check out my WIRED Backchannel story that opens a window into Iranian hacker culture.

I have an edited volume as well: `Abdu'l-Bahá's Journey West: The Course of Human Solidarity