%0 Journal Article %T Response to Yarbakhsh Elisabeth. Reading Derrida in Tehran: Between an Open Door and an Empty Sofreh. Humanities, 2018, 7, 21 %J Humanities | An Open Access Journal from MDPI %D 2019 %R https://doi.org/10.3390/h8030140 %X This critical engagement with Elisabeth Yarbaksh¡¯s essay asks what Iran might be gaining from sustaining its particular form of (un-)hospitality. It considers whether Iranian dynamics of hospitality might be working to meet the specific political interests of the post-revolutionary ¡°republic¡± and concludes with a comparison to classical Athenian migration ( metoikia) politics. View Full-Tex %U https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/8/3/140