Shahram Khosravi

Shahram Khosravi is Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University. His research interests include anthropology of Iran and the Middle East, migration, forced displacement, and border studies. Khosravi is the author of Young and Defiant in Tehran (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008), The Illegal Traveler: an auto-ethnography of borders (Palgrave, 2010), Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017) and editor of After Deportation: Ethnographic Perspectives (Palgrave, 2017). He has been an active writer for the international press and has also written fiction. Currently he is working on an art book on waiting.