Author

Joobin Bekhrad

Joobin Bekhrad is the founder of Reorient magazine and author of the recently released novel, "Coming Down Again."

Marriage, Iranian Revolution-Style

by Joobin BekhradSeptember 18, 2018

Forty years ago in 1978, my parents decided to get hitched in Iran. Dad had met Mum — then only seventeen — in the States...

Arts and Literature,

Future. Iran.

by Joobin BekhradFebruary 6, 2018

I must have just finished downing my third cup of bitter Faranseh coffee when Babak finally turned up at the old Hyatt in Tehran. I...

Arts and Literature,

Why We Need To Stop Comparing Middle Eastern Artists To Their Perceived Western Counterparts

by Joobin BekhradMay 18, 2017

In an article recently published by The Guardian, the late Iranian poet and filmmaker Forough Farrokhzad (1935 – 1967) was introduced as ‘Iran’s Sylvia Plath’....

Politics,

The Culture War At The Heart Of The Present ‘Gulf’ Conflict

by Joobin BekhradMay 9, 2017

‘I’m terribly sorry,’ someone from a cultural organisation in Abu Dhabi recently told me, ‘but you can’t use that term’. As part of an interview...