Professor Dominic Parviz Brookshaw

Professor of Persian Literature and Iranian Culture at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Oxford University and Senior Research Fellow in Persian at Wadham College. He holds a BA in Arabic with Persian from Oxford, and a DPhil in premodern Persian poetry, also from Oxford. Before returning to Oxford in 2013, Dominic taught Persian literature and language at Stanford University, Manchester University, and McGill University. Dominic has travelled widely in Iran, Central Asia, Afghanistan, and the Arab Middle East, and has previously led tours for Martin Randall to both Uzbekistan and Iran.