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Behnaz MIRZAI is Professor of Middle Eastern history at Brock University, Canada. She has authored numerous articles on slavery and the African diaspora in Iran; edited The Baluchi and Baluchistan; co-edited Slavery, Islam and Diaspora, and Africa and Its Diasporas: Rethinking Struggles for Recognition and Empowerment; and produced two documentary films, 'Afro-Iranian Lives', and 'The African-Baluchi Trance Dance'. She is the author of A History of Slavery and Emancipation in Iran, 1800-1929, which was shortlisted for the 2018 Canadian Historical Association Wallace K. Ferguson Prize.