Readers of The Iranian may be familiar with Dr. Shiva Ghaed, the psychologist, writer, and advice columnist who has been answering our reader’s questions over
1) Iran and India Should Work On More Films Together, says Gholamreza Ansari The Iranian ambassador to India, Gholamreza Ansari, recently spoke about the future
The civil lawsuit has come to a close in the Shayan Mazroei case (previous reportage here). The Iranian-American student who was killed by a white
Kurdish-Iranian champion weightlifter Kianoush Rostami has had close surveillance on everything he says or does. This attention has only increased exponentially after a tremendous representation
1) Documentary ‘Lady Touran’ Finishes Shooting, Celebrates the Life of Touran Mirhadi Touran Mirhadi, devoted teacher and co-founder of the Children’s Book Council, will be
The trial for the murder of Iranian-American Shayan Mazroei began earlier this week. A resident of Orange County, Mazroei was killed in Patsy’s Irish Pub
Teenage actress Yara Shahidi has continued her path as a reliably rising newcomer, and her new show Grown-ish—the spinoff of the popular Black-ish—has finally been
Iran has been living for almost 30 years with a legal system aligned with Sharia law in accordance with Islam, the Islamic Revolutionary Court, or
I sneak into Mehran Khaghani’s weekly comedy show surreptitiously, thinking that I’ve successfully avoided attention. But, like anyone else seated in Pink’s that night, he
1) Iranian-Armenian Film ‘Yeva’ Submitted To Oscars Part of the aforementioned 92 films submitted for consideration of the Best Foreign Film Oscar, Yeva is an
As coverage continues to filter through the biggest news from New York Comic Con, one particular story started to bubble up this week: Iranian-American actress
Stencils were just the beginning for Icy and Sot, two Iranian street artist brothers who left Tabriz in 2012 for New York City. In the
Hi! In this new column at The Iranian, we’re going to cover the week’s biggest and/or most interesting Iranian movie news, with stories taken from
Iranian film continues to make headlines, this time with a special recognition for Iranian actress Leila Hatami. In a curated list of performances that include
Residents of both Seattle and Isfahan will sit down for a carefully designed dinner this Thursday, taking part in a unique and rather unprecedented cultural
Baptiste Baudier had a powerful idea when he visited Iran back in 2015, and it came to fruition earlier this year: to chronicle a personable
If you do a web search for Azita Moradkhani, you’re likely to first find images of lingerie. The young artist, currently stationed in Utica in
He was out there, back and forth. He started off with just a canoe, but the next thing you know, there’s a pack of people
Iranian filmmaker Shirin Neshat has narratives and tensions to share, and her upcoming film Looking for Oum Kulthum looks to join her previous work as
Iran is a land of poets A powerhouse of talented actors and creative design comes together in Ann Marie Fleming’s Window Horses, an animated feature
Siamak Ghahremani finally blocks out some time in his schedule for an extended phone call with me. I’m not in the least bit irked that
The story begins four days ago, when actor Rajkummar Rao announces the submission of the film Newton as India’s official entry to the 2018 Oscars,
The world’s extended Iranian community includes specific cities like Holon, a city tucked into the southern tip of Tel Aviv in Israel, and home to
Joining Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman at this year’s Academy Awards was a Swedish film, Hannes Holm’s A Man Called Ove. Although Farhadi would triumphantly take
Liliana Bakhtiari is a queer Muslim Iranian-American woman looking to make history in Atlanta, GA. A well-traveled, egalitarian community leader, the 29-year-old is looking to
