The Mosaic Rooms

Esmaeil Haddadian-Moghaddam  is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions research fellow at Universiteit Leiden. He has recently co-edited a special issue (Translation and Interpreting Studies) on translation and the Cultural Cold War where he also explores the story of William Faulkner’s introduction into the Middle East through the work of Franklin Book programs. He is the author of Literary Translation in Modern Iran: A Sociological Study (2014) and one of the founders and managing editors of the Journal of World Literature . His current project examines the dynamics, legacy and impact of the cultural Cold War in the Middle East through the Franklin operations.