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Three Love Poems by Rumi, Translated by Haleh Liza Gafori

Three Love Poems by Rumi, Translated by Haleh Liza Gafori

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
Getting to the Other Side: a Kurdish Migrant Story

Getting to the Other Side: a Kurdish Migrant Story

Iason Athanasiadis paints the portrait of Bahoz, a stateless Kurd who will keep fighting to become accepted for...

15 JANUARY 2022 • By Iason Athanasiadis
Refugees of Afghanistan in Iran: a Photo Essay by Peyman Hooshmandzadeh

Refugees of Afghanistan in Iran: a Photo Essay by Peyman Hooshmandzadeh

In Iran, Afghan refugees have been a part our everyday lives for over four decades now.

15 JANUARY 2022 • By Rahil Mohsin
Meditations on The Ungrateful Refugee

Meditations on The Ungrateful Refugee

Rana Asfour shares her thoughts on the widely-celebrated book from Dina Nayeri, who writes that escaping and becoming...

15 JANUARY 2022 • By Rana Asfour
The Fabulous Omid Djalili on Good Times and the World

The Fabulous Omid Djalili on Good Times and the World

British Iranian actor, comedian and podcast host Omid Djalili opens up about comedy, racism and his beauty secrets...

15 DECEMBER 2021 • By Jordan Elgrably
Hasteem, We Are Here: The Collective for Black Iranians

Hasteem, We Are Here: The Collective for Black Iranians

  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
Why Resistance Is Foundational to Kurdish Literature

Why Resistance Is Foundational to Kurdish Literature

Kurdish writer Ava Homa on how statelessness, trauma and political exile shaped her novel "Daughters of Smoke and...

15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By Ava Homa
The Harrowing Life of Kurdish Freedom Activist Kobra Banehi

The Harrowing Life of Kurdish Freedom Activist Kobra Banehi

Excerpted from the anthology Kurdish Women’s Stories (Pluto Press, 2020), by special arrangement with editor Houzan Mahmoud.  ...

15 SEPTEMBER 2021 • By Kobra Banehi
Women Comic Artists, from Afghanistan to Morocco

Women Comic Artists, from Afghanistan to Morocco

Anthropologist and comix author Sherine Hamdy provides a brief overview of new and recent Arab & Middle Eastern...

15 AUGUST 2021 • By Sherine Hamdy
The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter

The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter

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
ISIS and the Absurdity of War in the Age of Twitter

ISIS and the Absurdity of War in the Age of Twitter

Jessica Proett reviews Salar Abdoh's empirical novel set during the days when ISIS was running loose across Iraq...

4 JULY 2021 • By Jessica Proett
The Murals of “Education is Not a Crime”

The Murals of “Education is Not a Crime”

Saleem Vaillancourt describes the worldwide mural campaign spearheaded by Maziar Bahari on behalf the Baha'i community to speak...

14 MAY 2021 • By Frances Zaid
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