Hamid Naficy (Persian: حمید نفیسی; born 1944) is an Iranian-born American filmmaker, writer, scholar, and educator. He is the Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in Communication at Northwestern University in the department of Radio/Film/Television, an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Art History, and a core member of the Middle East and North African Studies Program….
Nader Engheta (Persian: نادر انقطاع) (born 1955 in Tehran) is an Iranian–American scientist. He has made pioneering contributions to the fields of metamaterials, transformation optics, plasmonic optics, nanophotonics, graphene photonics, nano-materials, nanoscale optics, nano-antennas and miniaturized antennas, physics and reverse-engineering of polarization vision in nature, bio-inspired optical imaging, fractional paradigm in electrodynamics, and electromagnetics and microwaves. Background After earning a B.S. degree from…
Mohammad Javad Abdolmohammadi (Persian: محمد جواد عبدالمحمدی) is the John E. Rhodes Professor of Accounting at Bentley University, having held the position since 1988.In 2007, he was inducted into the Northeast Region of the American Accounting Association Hall of Fame (April 28, 2007). He has contributed to more than 100 publications, including many articles and books on internal auditing. He…
Kamyar Abdi (Persian: کامیار عبدی; born 1969 in Tabriz) is an Iranian anthropologist and assistant professor of archaeology at Shahid Beheshti University. He initiated his undergraduate studies in archaeology at the University of Tehran, leading to a master’s degree. Subsequently, he joined the Oriental Institute based in the University of Chicago (currently renamed as the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, West Asia…
