“Breaking Bread” and “Sir Alfred of Charles de Gaulle Airport”, directed by Iranian filmmaker Hamid Rahmanian, will be screening at the Arab and Iranian Film

We've all read book after book about Iran, like hungry wolves in a dark forest, eagerly snapping at anything that looks remotely like flesh. I

Once upon a time there were Three Astrologers living in the Orient and they really did live happily ever after. Just that they confused everybody

Polly clicks her high, fuck-me heels and bolts fast. Physical reality is frightening. Perpetual primary perceptions can hurt. At the door, security holds the “late

Khaaleh (Aunt) Mojdeh came running through the door, all excited. — “I saw Reza today!” She exclaimed, in response to my mom's inquiring look. We

These cartoons were published during the past year in Venerdi, a weekly magazine publised by the Italian daily La Repubblica. Radpour teaches editorial illustration at

I spent the summer of 1977 with my grandmother at her house in south Tehran. She lived in Amiriyeh, at the Moez-ol-Soltan cross road in

Imagine you are walking in the street one day and feel a severe headache coming on. You tell yourself you have not experienced anything like

Ahmad Nadalian's works are mainly symbolic. His recent sketches, paintings, carvings and rock structures focus on themes of fertility and creation. In recent years, alongside