Somewhere in Tehran, a child feels the same incomprehensible terror as foreign missiles fall, just as the writer...
JUNE 20, 2025 • By Hassan Abdulrazzak
Sama Alshaibi’s new project focuses on the spatial, material, and technological fragments that narrate the story of a...
MAY 2, 2025 • By Yasmine Al Awa
In the aftermath of a long war, a man in Iran searches for meaning, hopes for love, and...
FEBRUARY 4, 2024 • By Salar Abdoh
Novelist Négar Djavadi deploys non-fiction to question Iran's downing of an international flight out of Tehran.
JANUARY 15, 2024 • By Sepideh Farkhondeh
As this writer from Khuzestan remembers, the long Iran-Iraq war left many traces, names and ghosts in its...
DECEMBER 3, 2023 • By Maryam Haidari
Pantea Amin Tofangchi grew up in poetry, war, death, conflict, beauty, hatred, love, and censorship all at the...
AUGUST 3, 2023 • By Pantea Amin Tofangchi
These days, for Iranian photographer Jassem Ghazbanpour, who began shooting the Iran-Iraq war at age 16, home is...
MARCH 5, 2023 • By Jassem Ghazbanpour
Who knows what drives anyone mad? For a sister who loves her big sister and emulates her, the...
JULY 15, 2022 • By Asmaa Azaizeh
Translator Alice Guthrie shares a preview of Al-Nadawi's exquisite 2017 novel "Qismet," a Kurdish story set in Iraq...
JUNE 15, 2022 • By Hawra Al-Nadawi
Nadje Al-Ali finds that Maysoon Pachachi’s film reflects her "long-standing commitment to highlight experiences of ordinary Iraqis, especially...
MAY 30, 2022 • By Nadje Al-Ali
