Milad Odabaei is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arkansas. His current manuscript is a critical anthropological study of the translation of European social thought in contemporary Iran. It argues that after the 1979 Revolution and the war with Iraq (1980-1988), amid ongoing cycles of revolt and repression as well as international regimes of isolation and sanction, translation is at once a manifestation of a historical crisis and an attempt to relate the past to a yet-unknown future. Building on his study of the postcolonial migration of discourse from Europe to the Middle East, Milad’s second project considers the psycho-political challenges of refugees and migrants to the Global North. It is a study of violence and creativity in relation to the movement of Persian speaking LGBTQ+ communities from Iran, Tajikestan and Afghanistan to North America.