We scanned social media for some of the best commemorative art honoring the great Maryam Mirzakhani. Here’s what we found…
Michael Mandelbaum of Johns Hopkins University reviews two recent books tracing the Islamic Republic’s political evolution and foreign policies since the country’s 1979 revolution. Misagh Parsa, Democracy
The rotoscoped animated film has a varied history, from Ralph Bakshi’s seminal Lord of the Ring’s film, Richard Linklater’s existential dream-narrative Waking Life, and the
Throughout eight episodes, American Gods on the STARZ network has introduced its viewership to a variety of unconventionally realized cultural images. Whether it’s a slave
My land is used to the dead And messages from them received, But it is not in the habit of seeing Live Messengers going out.
It is a typically roasting day in Century City, and I’m standing in a sea of what has to be the most Iranians I’ve ever
Every day after noon, Davood would wake up and spend the rest of his day on the rooftop of the lodging house, playing with the
If you’ve looked at a line of ants marching across your kitchen counter and wondered if they were boys or girls, you were right if
Today’s spotlight is into the life and mind of a very interesting man born in Tehran. Shayan Asgharnia has become successful through hard work and persistence
Nearly thirty years later, Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s heavily censored film is finding new audiences A year after Ayatollah Khomeini’s death in 1989, and in the wake of
Nazanin Boniadi is many things. Actor. SAG Award nominee. Activist. Council on Foreign Relations Term Member. And now, she can add Academy Member to the
You know how they call people political activists? I’m a cultural activist. I’m sitting in the studio of Iranian artist Hamid Rahmanian, on the ground
Think invisible men, time travel, flying machines and journeys to other planets are the product of the European or ‘Western’ imagination? Open One Thousand and
Yara Shahidi turned seventeen this year, and has accomplished much more before her eighteenth birthday than most. As a standout star on the award-winning ABC
‘I am the descendant of four civilisations. In my self-portrait, the hand is Persian, the dress is Byzantine, the face is Cretan, and the eyes
This artist bravely tells his story to allow others to see themselves in a new light and release emotions. An artist is a master at
It’s becoming increasingly rare to meet accomplished musicians, and in a time when our fingers are crossed that our music and arts programs will not be
How did a 400-line poem based on the writings of a Persian sage and advocating seize-the-day hedonism achieve widespread popularity in Victorian England? The Rubáiyát
https://vimeo.com/217372390 I wanted to show different perspectives of the parade while connecting it to the beautiful history of Iran. The parade, food, and atmosphere was
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’.
Willem Marius Floor was born in Utrecht, the Netherlands. After finishing high school, he attended the University of Utrecht were he studied Arabic and eventually became
Ah, 1979: the year the Shah said ‘adios’ to the land of the Lion and Sun; the year Ayatollah Khomeini returned from exile in Fgghhhance
No book has so cogently identified and better analyzed the issues related to and the costly consequences of split families than The Golden Cage by
It was one of those afternoons I didn’t ever want to end. All I’d brought with me were a pair of bright blue jeans and
It seems uncharacteristic for Iranians to reveal much about their personal life, let alone write a memoir, because of modesty and running the risk of
