Every intellectual project requires good company, hopefully with pushback as well as support. I will feature two conversations here with fragments from my side of the conversation, interspersed with my friends’ writings whenever I have managed to save these.
claudio sgarbi
Iraj Esmaeilpour Ghoochani
From Academia.com: Dr. Iradj Esmailpour moved to Germany in 2009 after the “Green Revolution”. He currently lives in Schwäbisch Hall, Vienna, and Stuttgart. After completing his degree in electrical engineering, he worked for several years as an electronics engineer and engineer in various research and development departments in Iran. Since 2000, he has been working in the field of art and cultural science, including participating in three Mehregan festivals in Dubai with a group of dancers and actors from 2000 to 2003. Before starting his doctoral thesis at LMU Munich, he conducted extensive field research in the Kurdistan region, including weekly participant observation of Sufi rituals (dances), which are reflected in his films. Here is an example. (Read more)
The Phenomenology of Sainthood in the Culture of Dreams in Kurdistan, With an Emphasis on Sufis of Qāderie Brotherhood (English with German summary)