Sara Mokhavat's first passion was for football and the Persepolis team, but being female in Iran put the...
NOVEMBER 15, 2022 • By Sara Mokhavat
Poems from Iranian poets in Iran and diaspora, from a new anthology edited by Christopher Nelson and introduced...
NOVEMBER 15, 2022 • By TMR
Theatre and film artist Mahmood Karimi Hakak argues that the women-led movement in Iran is different from past...
OCTOBER 24, 2022 • By Mohamed Radwan
For nearly 40 years, writes Sara Mokhavat, her generation in Iran has gone from one crisis to another.
OCTOBER 24, 2022 • By Sara Mokhavat
In HEROINES, artists pay homage to the late Mahsa Jhina Amini and the women-led uprising for freedom in...
OCTOBER 15, 2022 • By
When an oppressive, insulting cleric makes life unbearable at a university campus in Tehran, students rebel. Pandemonium ensues.
OCTOBER 15, 2022 • By Sara Mokhavat
Noushin Afzali profiles multimedia artist Shirin Mohammad, who glides back and forth between Berlin, Bremen and Tehran.
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022 • By Hannah Fox
In this month's music column, Melissa Chemam talks to a British national with an Iranian heart and musical...
JUNE 20, 2022 • By Melissa Chemam
One of contemporary Iran's best storytellers conjures a tale of octogenarian love in a Nabokovian mode.
JUNE 15, 2022 • By Alireza Iranmehr
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