Pouneh Shabani Jadidi　holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Ottawa. She has been a Faculty Lecturer, teaching Persian language and linguistics as well as Persian literature and translation at McGill, Oxford, Chicago and Azad universities since 1997. She is the co-author of　The Routledge Introductory Persian Course, 2010 and The Routledge Intermediate Persian Course, 　2012 (both with Dominic Brookshaw). Shabani-Jadidi is also a reviewer for the Journal of the International Society for Iranian Studies and the International Journal of Applied Linguistics since 2008.

What the Persian Papers Say: An Advanced Course in Persian Lesson 1 Ettel't - National and international news (front page) Lesson 2 Keyhn - National and international news Lesson 3 Sharq - National and international news (front page) Lesson 4 Ettel't - National news Lesson 5 Keyhn - National news Lesson 6 Sharq Lesson 7 Ettel't - Opinion Lesson 8 Keyhn - Entertainment Lesson 9 Sharq - Arts Lesson 10 Ettel't - Economics Lesson 11 Keyhn - Economics Lesson 12 Sharq - Economics Lesson 13 Ettel't - Provincial news Lesson 14 Keyhn - Crimes and disasters Lesson 15 Sharq - Social issues Lesson 16 E'temd - National and international news (front page) - Thought Lesson 17 Irn - National and international news (front page) - Politics Lesson 18 Mardomslri - National and international news (front page) - Politics Lesson 19 E'temd - Literature and arts Lesson 20 Irn - Theater - Thought Lesson 21 Mardomslri - Arts - National Lesson 22 E'temd - Social issues - Crimes and disasters Lesson 23 Irn - National news - Social issues Lesson 24 Mardomslri - Health - Arts Lesson 25 E'temd - Politics - Politics Lesson 26 Irn - Politics - Politics Lesson 27 Mardomslri - Politics - Politics Lesson 28 E'temd - Arts - Arts Lesson 29 Irn - Books - National news Lesson 30 Mardomslri - Books - Arts Persian-English glossary English-Persian glossary