Fazel Ahad Ahadi's works include scripts, plays, and poetry in Persian and Cyrillic. He was Professor in the Faculty of Arts at Kabul University and a visiting professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi is Instructional Professor of Persian at the University of Chicago. She is the co-translator of Hafez in Love: A Novel, winner of the 2021 Lois Roth Persian Translation Prize. Patricia J. Higgins is University Distinguished Service Professor Emerita at SUNY Plattsburgh and was a Fulbright lecturer at Tehran University. She is the co-translator of Hafez in Love: A Novel, winner of the 2021 Lois Roth Persian Translation Prize. Nile Green is Professor of History and the Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author of Global Islam: A Very Short Introduction .