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Kheiriyeh (Khey-ree-yeah) Ahmadi is currently a 2nd year doctoral student in the English Literature and Criticism program at IUP. She graduated from the University of Southern California (MA in TESOL) in 2012. She is fluent, and has conducted research, in Farsi, English and Arabic. She has translated into English chapters from a 17th-century Persian chronicle written by the Safavid historian Fazli Khuzani Isfahani. Ahmadi has been working as a full-time instructor of English at the American University of Kuwait for the past two years. Her scholarly interests include women writers, Middle Eastern literature, oral and performance traditions and ethnopoetics.