People Project and Journal Guest Editor: Neguin Yavari Neguin Yavari, PhD, Columbia University, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, University of Leipzig. POP Guest Editor: Sassan Tabatabai Sassan Tabatabai is a poet, translator, and scholar of Medieval Persian literature. He is Master Lecturer in World Languages and Literatures and the Core Curriculum, and Coordinator of the Persian Language Program at Boston University. He is the author of Father of Persian Verse: Rudaki and his Poetry (Leiden University Press), Sufi Haiku (Nemi Books), and Uzunburun: Poems (Pen and Anvil), and translator of the novel Blind Owl by Sadeq Hedayat (Penguin Classics). Editorial Assistant: Soren Chang Soren Chang is a current undergraduate senior studying comparative literature, contemporary Korean literary translation, and art history at Boston University. Mizan | Advisory Board Kecia Ali [email protected] Thomas Barfield [email protected] Richard Bulliet [email protected] Juan Cole [email protected] Emine Fetvaci [email protected] Margaret Litvin [email protected] Teena Purohit [email protected] Mizan | Journal Editorial Board Cynthia Becker [email protected] Olga M. Davidson [email protected] Adam Gaiser [email protected] Roberta Micallef [email protected] Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst [email protected] Sabine Schmidtke [email protected] Sunil Sharma [email protected]