This book is in fact an attempt to make the geographical borders between today's Iran, its neighbors and the Persian as one of the historical cultural achievements more precise. Since the aim is interdisciplinary the participation of international scholars - but also international artists - this book serves a new format, which stimulates the reader to further research, perhaps also instructs for innovation. If researchers of the field consisting of contemporary and ancient Iranian studies, music ethnologists, filmmakers, historians, poets/songwriters, philologists, Islamic studies scientists, sociologists and political scientists contribute, the result will be this book. With contributions by Safar Abdullah, Homayun Alam, Ali M. Ansari, John Baily, Reza Deghati, Bert Fragner, Gabriele Dold Ghadar, Ahmad Karimi Hakkak, Philipp Gerrit Kreyenbroek, Sardar Kohistani, Makhmalbaf Film House, Nahid Morshedlou, Richard Stoneman, Hamid Reza Yousefi and Farid Zoland.
