About the Author

REZA FAROKHFAL teaches Persian Language and Civilization at the University of Colorado, Boulder. As an author in Iran, he wrote fiction and literary essays, but in recent years in America he has written works mostly in literary theory and cultural studies. His book Sadi’s Narrative of Exile was published in Tehran in 2008. Teaching Persian (Farsi) as a less commonly taught language, he has applied a “communicative approach” in his classes, which is also the method he has used in compiling his  Persian language course books Persian: Here and Now – Book One, Introduction to Persian and Persian: Here and Now – Book Two, Intermediate Persian