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Farewell to a Football Love Affair in Iran

Farewell to a Football Love Affair in Iran

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
5 Poems & a Video—Essential Voices: Poetry of Iran and Its Diaspora

5 Poems & a Video—Essential Voices: Poetry of Iran and Its Diaspora

Poems from Iranian poets in Iran and diaspora, from a new anthology edited by Christopher Nelson and introduced...

NOVEMBER 15, 2022 • By TMR
Women Are the Face of Iran’s Leaderless Revolution

Women Are the Face of Iran’s Leaderless Revolution

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
Letter From Tehran: On the Pain of Others, Once Again

Letter From Tehran: On the Pain of Others, Once Again

For nearly 40 years, writes Sara Mokhavat, her generation in Iran has gone from one crisis to another.

OCTOBER 24, 2022 • By Sara Mokhavat
Homage to Mahsa Jhina Amini & the Women-Led Call for Freedom

Homage to Mahsa Jhina Amini & the Women-Led Call for Freedom

In HEROINES, artists pay homage to the late Mahsa Jhina Amini and the women-led uprising for freedom in...

OCTOBER 15, 2022 • By
Defiance—an essay from Sara Mokhavat

Defiance—an essay from Sara Mokhavat

When an oppressive, insulting cleric makes life unbearable at a university campus in Tehran, students rebel. Pandemonium ensues.

OCTOBER 15, 2022 • By Sara Mokhavat
Shirin Mohammad: Portrait of an Artist Between Berlin & Tehran

Shirin Mohammad: Portrait of an Artist Between Berlin & Tehran

Noushin Afzali profiles multimedia artist Shirin Mohammad, who glides back and forth between Berlin, Bremen and Tehran.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022 • By Hannah Fox
Roxana Vilk’s Personal History of Iranian Music

Roxana Vilk’s Personal History of Iranian Music

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
“Buenos Aires of Her Eyes”—a story by Alireza Iranmehr

“Buenos Aires of Her Eyes”—a story by Alireza Iranmehr

One of contemporary Iran's best storytellers conjures a tale of octogenarian love in a Nabokovian mode.

JUNE 15, 2022 • By Alireza Iranmehr
Hawra Al-Nadawi: “Tuesday and the Green Movement”

Hawra Al-Nadawi: “Tuesday and the Green Movement”

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
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