Peyman Hooshmandzadeh

Peyman Hooshmandzadeh is a photographer, born in Tehran, Iran, in 1969. He has a BA in photography from Azad University. Since his first exhibition in 1995, Hooshmandzadeh has had over eighty solo exhibitions and has participated in numerous group shows, at home and abroad. He has worked as a photojournalist for Iranian newspapers and agencies, as well as various international organisations — including Reuters. He is the winner of dozens of national and international photographic awards. His work has been shown in such venues as the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art and Musée du Quai Branly in Paris.

Malu Halasais a writer and Literary Editor of The Markaz Review. She is editor of the anthology Woman Life Freedom: Voices and Art From the Women’s Protests in Iran (2023) and coeditor of Sumūd: A New Palestinian Reader (2025), with Jordan Elgrably. Her debut novel Mother of All Pigs (2017) was described by the New York Times as “a microcosmic portrait of… a patriarchal order in slow-motion decline.” Her co-authored books include: Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline (2014); The Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie: Intimacy and Design (2008), with Rana Salam; Transit Tehran: Young Iran and Its Inspirations (2009), with Maziar Bahari; and Transit Beirut: New Writing and Images (2004). As managing editor of the Prince Claus Fund Library, Amsterdam, she produced books on art and culture from the Global South. A founding editor of Tank Magazine, London, and Editor at Large for Portal 9, Beirut, she has written for the Guardian, Financial Times and TLS. Her writings, exhibitions, and lectures chart a changing Middle East. Find her on Instagram @Malu Halasa.