These on-the-ground notes from Iran reject oversimplification and one-sided narratives: "There is layer upon layer."
23 JANUARY 2026 • By M. Nateqnuri
In this short story translated from Persian, an ordinary day swiftly — and brutally — changes course.
5 DECEMBER 2025 • By Abdollah Nazari
Jafar Panahi’s film reminds us that vengeance doesn’t stop at borders.
5 DECEMBER 2025 • By Alex Demyanenko
A meditation on how war distorts the perception of time, transforming events and emotions into distant memories.
4 JULY 2025 • By Alireza Iranmehr
A writer-artist sits in a café in Tehran with a failing internet connection, risking life and limb to...
20 JUNE 2025 • By Amir
An Iranian writer and translator in the heart of Tehran unexpectedly becomes a cat woman, attached to her...
1 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Farnaz Haeri
Novelist Négar Djavadi deploys non-fiction to question Iran's downing of an international flight out of Tehran.
15 JANUARY 2024 • By Sepideh Farkhondeh
Malu Halasa reviews the latest book on Iranian women photographers by Anahita Ghabaian Etehadieh alongside two new books...
20 NOVEMBER 2023 • By Malu Halasa
Salar Abdoh reports from Tehran on the beauty and complexity of Iranian literature that thrives despite warring factions.
1 OCTOBER 2023 • By Salar Abdoh
A woman's sexual ruminations kindles memories of her conservative upbringing in Iran and a longing for the liberating...
3 SEPTEMBER 2023 • By Fargol Malekpoosh
A small town couple have a brutally honest conversation about marriage in light of the “Woman, Life, Freedom”...
2 JULY 2023 • By Danial Haghighi
Aliyeh Ataei's new story centers on a young woman exploring herself as a writer while choosing life in...
2 JULY 2023 • By Aliyeh Ataei
