Fariba Zarinebaf
is writing a childhood memoir about growing up in pre-revolutionary Iran. She is a historian whose research focuses on the history of gender and law in the Middle East, urban and social history, pluralism and cosmopolitanism in Eastern Mediterranean cities. She is also working on Iranian Diasporic spaces and landscapes of memory in Istanbul, Chicago and LA. Her books include Crime and Punishment in Istanbul, 1700-1800 (University of California Press, 2010), and Women on the Margins: Gender, Charity and Justice in the Early Modern Middle East (Isis Press, 2014) and Mediterranean Encounters: Trade and Pluralism in Early Modern Galata( UC Press, 2018).