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Excerpt from Crows in the Nightingale's Tree; a mother-daughter story set against the backdrop of the revolution. Zarah's grandmother was beautiful, even in death. Her

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Stop bitching

Roozbeh Shirazi wrote an excellent article posing the notion that everyone wants change for Iran [The dangerous path ahead], but not everyone is on the

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Pahlavi pizza

The whole world has been staring at this piece of years-old grilled cheese sandwitch and quietly wondering about the things reasonable person come to believe.

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My own private hostage crisis

November 4th marked the 25th anniversary of the hostage crisis in Iran. A quarter-century after reactionary students seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, and held

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Music

Maziar captured the heart of many with his beautiful voice in the late 1970s and then vanished from the music scene. The private artist re-emerged

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