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  1. Molla Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster (1906–1911). Janet Afary and Kamran Afary (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022). 398 pp (hardcover). ISBN: 9781474499507.

    Article • Iranian Studies, March 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Mostafa Abedinifard

  2. Iran's “Self-Deprecating Modernity”: Toward Decolonizing Collective Self-Critique

    Article • International Journal of Middle East Studies, May 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Mostafa Abedinifard

  3. Persian ‘Rashti jokes’: modern Iran’s palimpsests of gheyrat-based masculinity

    Article • British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, March 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mostafa Abedinifard

  4. My Reply to Davies' Criticism of My Argument "Structural Functions of the Targeted Joke"

    Article • Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, January 2017, De Gruyter

    Dr. Mostafa Abedinifard, Dr Mostafa Abedinifard

  5. Gender Humor Helps to Maintain Patriarchy

    Article • Social Semiotics, January 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mostafa Abedinifard

  6. Structural Functions of Joke Cycles: The Case of Persian Qazvini Jokes

    Article • Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, January 2016, De Gruyter

    Dr. Mostafa Abedinifard, Dr Mostafa Abedinifard

  7. Autobiographical comics: life writing in pictures

    Article • Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics, June 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mostafa Abedinifard

  8. The Education of Women and The Vices of Men: Two Qajar Tracts

    Article • Iranian Studies, December 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mostafa Abedinifard

  9. Book review: The Rhetoric of Racist Humour: US, UK, and Global Race JokingWeaverSimonThe Rhetoric of Racist Humour: US, UK, and Global Race JokingAshgate, Surrey, 2011, £55 hbk, (ISBN: 9781409420118), 215 pp.

    Article • Cultural Sociology, August 2013, SAGE Publications

    Dr Mostafa Abedinifard