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Negar Mottahedeh
Professor of Literature
Literature
negar@duke.edu
Box 90670, Durham, NC 27708-0670
125C Friedl Building (E. Campus), Buchanan and Trinity, Durham, NC 27708-0670
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By appointment negar@duke.edu  
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Artistic Works
Global Perspectives on Animal Memes: How Cats Took Over the Internet
Installation
August 7, 2015
Asia Society New York Iranian New Wave film series
Film
January 1, 2013
Education under Fire
Film
October 14, 2011
Asia Society’s Tribute to Jafar Panahi
Film
January 1, 2011
Middle Eastern Film Festival
Film
January 1, 2011
Twitfilm
Film
November 1, 2009
Twitfilm
Film
April 1, 2009
Accented Cinemas of the Middle East film series
Film
January 1, 2009
Iranian Film Festival & Iranian Studies Conference
Film
January 1, 2008
“Axis of Evil": Aftershocks
Film
January 1, 2008
Holding up Half the Sky: Muslim Women in Film,
Film
January 1, 2008
Aftershocks: September 11th
Film
January 1, 2006
Middle East in FOCUS film programming
Film
January 1, 2005
3rd I: Showcasing Latin American Indigenous Films
Film
January 1, 2004
Ararda/Between: Turkish film festival panel discussion
Film
January 1, 2004
Forget Baghdad
Film
January 1, 2004
Hip Hop film series
Film
January 1, 2004
Full Frame Film Festival
Film
January 1, 2004
Contemporary Iranian Cinema
Film
January 1, 2003
Reel Evil: Films from the Axis of Evil series
Film
January 1, 2003
Middle Eastern Film Series
Film
January 1, 2003
The Day I Became a Woman
Film
January 1, 2003
Anime film festival
Film
October 1, 2002
Iranian film festival
Film
April 26, 2002
Exhibitions, Screenings, & Performances
Global Memes
Victoria and Albert Museum. London ·
January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2017
Global animal memes
Museum of the Moving Image, NYC ·
January 1, 2015 - January 1, 2015
Tribute to Jafar Panahi
Asia Society, NYC ·
January 1, 2011 - January 1, 2011