Life Marriage, Iranian Revolution-Style Forty years ago in 1978, my parents decided to get hitched in Iran. Dad had met Mum — then only seventeen — in the States Read More » September 18, 2018 No Comments
Arts and Literature Future. Iran. 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 Read More » February 6, 2018 No Comments
Arts and Literature Why We Need To Stop Comparing Middle Eastern Artists To Their Perceived Western Counterparts 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’. Read More » May 18, 2017 No Comments
Politics The Culture War At The Heart Of The Present ‘Gulf’ Conflict ‘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 Read More » May 9, 2017 No Comments