Kamran Djam Annual Lecture 2013, The Perils of Persian Princesses, Lecture 1 at SOAS

The first of the 2013 Kamran Djam Annual Lectures hosted by the Centre for Iranian Studies, SOAS, University of London on the subject of The Perils of Persian Princesses: Women and Medieval Persian Literature entitled To Whom do you Beautifully Belong, or Whose Life is it Anyway Women in Medieval Persian Poetry by Professor Dick Davis. In his first talk Professor Davis will concentrate on the ways in which women are presented in medieval Persian poetry, particularly bu