[5] Anvar has been an associate professor of Persian literature at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO) since 2001, and she is part of the CERMOM research team (main affiliation).

[6] In 2017, Anvar was selected to head the Festival of Persian-Speaking Communities which was held in Paris in January 2018.

Leili Anvar also contributes to the understanding of Sufism, Persian culture, history, literature, and spirituality.

[1][3] She directed the publication of an anthology of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish poetry titled Orient – Mille ans de poésie et de peinture[8] (Orient - A Thousand Years of Poetry and Painting), for which she translated the Persian poems in 2009.

[9] She translated into French verse the Manṭiq-uṭ-Ṭayr a mystical masterpiece by the Persian poet Attar under the title Le Cantique des Oiseaux.