Rana Haddad interviews hybrid hopscotching writer Michael Vatikiotis on his colorful life and work spanning continents.
OCTOBER 18, 2024 • By Rana Haddad
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
Expressions of love in Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Turkish and Kurdish, to give Valentine's Day a new meaning.
FEBRUARY 13, 2023 • By TMR
Tony Barnstone and Bilal Shaw present their book of Ghabib ghazals, translated from the Urdu.
OCTOBER 16, 2022 • By Tony Barnstone
In which Philip Grant muses on Ibn Sayyār al-Warrāq’s tenth century cookbook, "Kitāb aṭ-Ṭabīkh" and cooking and baking...
APRIL 15, 2022 • By Philip Grant
December 12, 2020 marks the 95th birthday of the revolutionary and controversial Iranian poet, translator, essayist, editor, encyclopedist,...
DECEMBER 12, 2020 • By Niloufar Talebi
