Dalia Yasharpour emigrated from Tehran, Iran to the United States in 1978 and grew up in Southern California. She completed graduate studies at The University of Oxford and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, earning her doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2005. Her dissertation, Elisha ben Shemuel's Shahzadeh va Sufi: The Judeo-Persian Adaptation of the Buddha Biographies, is a textual study of what is popularly known in the West as the Barlaam and Josaphat Legend. A scholar of Judeo-Persian literature, her academic interests include Persian and Judeo-Persian didactic verse, the comparative study of epic narrative traditions and comparative Jewish liturgy.
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