Ali Salami

Ali Salami, Ph.D., is a literary scholar, lexicographer, translator and Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Tehran. An internationally acclaimed author, Salami has extensively written on gender and discourse, as well as Shakespeare and postcolonial literature. He has translated the works of Hafiz, Rumi, Attar, Ferdowsi, and Khayyam into English. Besides, his translation of the collected works of Shakespeare into Persian is an unprecedented endeavor. Currently, Salami is a research scholar at the Folger Shakespeare Institute in Washington.