1. An overview of Neshat's films and career Mazyar Mahan and Maryam Ghorbankarimi 2. An Interview with Shirin Neshat Maryam Ghorbankarimi and Mazyar Mahan Part I. Feminist Interventions and Cinematic Authorship 3. The Emphatic Address of Shirin Neshat and Shoja Azari's Feature Films Valentina Vitali 4. Articulating the Feminist 'I': Shirin Neshat and the Politics of Authorship Mazyar Mahan 5. On the Orientalist Stage: Re-signifying Space and Silence in Zarin (2006) Farshad Zahedi 6. Unveiling the Everyday: Female Subjectivity and Subversive Agency in Shirin Neshat's Women Without Men (2009) and Mahdokht (2004) Farzaneh Ebrahimzadeh Holasu Part II.

Diasporic Visions and Transnational Frames 7. Displaying Iran: Shirin Neshat in the Global Exhibition Erin C. Devine 8. Looking Beyond Oum Kulthum: Transnational Imaginaries and the Iconoclastic Vision of Shirin Neshat Michelle Langford 9. Between Two Worlds: Transnational Feminism and Aesthetic Resistance in The Fury Maryam Ghorbankarimi 10. Embodied Narratives: Shirin Neshat's Use of the Body as Textual Ground in Dialogue with Wafaa Bilal Maryam Takalou 11. Migrant Dreams Build Nations; Shirin Neshat's Reverent Gaze in Land of Dreams Endows Subjects with Human Rights Mehraneh Ebrahimi PART III. Sensory Histories and Poetic Bodies 12.

Cinematherapy: Shirin Neshat's Delineation of Body, Sexuality, and Neurobiology of Trauma in Women Without Men Devaleena Das 13. A Study of Music Temporality in Shirin Neshat's short films the phenomenology of 'Ma'(), and the in-betweenness of sound and music Sascia Pellegrini 14. Between Dreamscapes and Realities in Shirin Neshat's Land of Dreams (2021) and Satoshi Kon's Paprika (2006) Maia Nichols 15. Toward Transnational Desert Landscape in Shirin Neshat's Films Ebrahim Barzegar 16. Reading Forough Farrokhzad through Fatimah al-Zahra: Self-Representation in Women of Allah (1993-1997) Reynier Valdés Piñeiro.