Talieh Wartner-Attarzadeh

Talieh Wartner-Attarzadeh is university assistant at the department for ethnomusicology at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Austria. Her current research project investigates post-revolutionary Iranian puppets and how they resist government-based restrictions against music and dance on Iranian national television.

Previously, she has researched Islamic women's rituals from the south-western Iranian province of Khuzestan, about which she wrote her BA and MA theses. Her research interests include music cultures from West Asia and Islamic countries. Moreover, she is interested in issues about media, political, religious, and gender aspects within the ethnomusicological framework.