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===Papers on Imam Hussain and Battle of Karbala===

*[https://voices.uchicago.edu/mehat/conference/archive/mehat18/ Setting Fire to the World: Experiencing Hazrat Zaynab bint ‘Ali in Muhtasham Kashani’s Karbala-nameh. Middle East History and Theory Conference, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (May 2003).]
*Take Me to [[Karbala]]: [[Zaynab|Hazrat Zaynab bint ‘Ali and]] the Shi‘i Community of Remembrance, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA (November 2003).
*The Saddest Story Ever Told: The Women of Karbala as Epic Heroines in South Asian Shi‘i Devotional Literature and Performance. Middle East Studies Association, Montréal, PQ (November 2007)
*The Role of Ladies in [[Karbala]] from Lady Fatima Az-Zahra to [[Zaynab|Lady Zaynab]]. Invited public lecture at Payam-e Aman Shiʿa Association for Imam Hussain Day, Somerset, NJ (8 December 2013).
*A Death Never-ending: Theoretical Reflections on the Ritualized Recurrence of [[Imam Hussain]]’s Becoming and Death in Shiʿism. 10th International Society for Iranian Studies Biennial Conference, Montréal, PQ (August 2014).