Shahram Khosravi is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University and the author of the following books: Young and Defiant in Tehran, University of Pennsylvania Press (2008); The Illegal Traveler: an auto-ethnography of borders, Palgrave (2010); and Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran, University of Pennsylvania Press (2017). He has been an active writer in the Swedish press and has also written fictional books.