Maryam Mortaz, in a translation by Salar Abdoh, remembers the favored rice of her Iranian childhood.
15 APRIL 2022 • By Maryam Mortaz
In which Philip Grant muses on Ibn Sayyār al-Warrāq’s tenth century cookbook, "Kitāb aṭ-Ṭabīkh" and cooking and baking...
15 APRIL 2022 • By Philip Grant
Iranian American poet and translator Haleh Liza Gafori presents a new volume of Rumi translations in "GOLD" published...
15 MARCH 2022 • By Haleh Liza Gafori
Iason Athanasiadis paints the portrait of Bahoz, a stateless Kurd who will keep fighting to become accepted for...
15 JANUARY 2022 • By Iason Athanasiadis
In Iran, Afghan refugees have been a part our everyday lives for over four decades now.
15 JANUARY 2022 • By Rahil Mohsin
Rana Asfour shares her thoughts on the widely-celebrated book from Dina Nayeri, who writes that escaping and becoming...
15 JANUARY 2022 • By TMR
British Iranian actor, comedian and podcast host Omid Djalili opens up about comedy, racism and his beauty secrets...
15 DECEMBER 2021 • By Jordan Elgrably
Twelve Gates Arts and the Collective for Black Iranians are hosting “Hasteem: We Are Here” from September 3-24,...
15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By Aimée Papazian
Kurdish writer Ava Homa on how statelessness, trauma and political exile shaped her novel "Daughters of Smoke and...
15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By Ava Homa
Excerpted from the anthology Kurdish Women’s Stories (Pluto Press, 2020), by special arrangement with editor Houzan Mahmoud. ...
15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By Kobra Banehi
Anthropologist and comix author Sherine Hamdy provides a brief overview of new and recent Arab & Middle Eastern...
15 AUGUST 2021 • By Sherine Hamdy
Maryam Zar reviews the new biography from Kai Bird, examining the one-term president who went on to change...
4 JULY 2021 • By Myriam Gurba
