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20 June, 2022 • Melissa Chemam

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 heritage.

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15 June, 2022 • Alireza Iranmehr, Salar Abdoh

Alireza Iranmehr: “Buenos Aires of Her Eyes”

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

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15 June, 2022 • Hawra Al-Nadawi, Alice Guthrie

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 and Iran.

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15 March, 2022 • Sherine Elbanhawy

The Art of Remembrance in “Abacus of Loss”

Sherine Elbanhawy lives in the pages of a memoir in verse and finds herself reluctant to leave, identifying with how its author unpacks the complexities of exile, home, family and love.

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15 February, 2022 • Atia Shafee

Atia Shafee: Raw and Distant Memories

Artist Atia Shafee hopes that her paintings will "resonate, trigger, and challenge, drawing the observer into the experience," imparting a universal appreciation for art.

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15 February, 2022 • Farzad Kohan

Farzad Kohan: Love, Migration, Identity

Farzad Kohan's art is a bridge and commentary on his Iranian and American worlds, sometimes converging, at other times colliding.

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15 February, 2022 • Amitis Motevalli

Baba Karam Lessons: Artist Amitis Motevalli

Iranian American artist Amitis Motevalli performs "baba karam" dance lessons, in a caricature of the street tough dance called “jahel,” often performed by women in drag as a commentary on gender and class constrictions.

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15 September, 2021 • Maryam Sophia Jahanbin

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, 2021.   Maryam Sophia Jahanbin Con­tent warn­ing: enslave­ment, land and labor acknowledgement. Con­sis­tent… Continue reading Hasteem, We Are Here: The Collective for Black Iranians

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1 July, 2015 • Jordan Elgrably

“Off the Radar” Grapples with Iranian-American Identities

  Off the Radar: A Father’s Secret, a Moth­er’s Hero­ism, and a Son’s Quest, by Cyrus Copeland Blue Rid­er Press (2015) ISBN: 9780399158506 Jordan Elgrably Hav­ing par­ents from two dif­fer­ent… Continue reading “Off the Radar” Grapples with Iranian-American Identities

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