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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...

24 OCTOBER 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.

24 OCTOBER 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...

15 OCTOBER 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.

15 OCTOBER 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.

15 SEPTEMBER 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...

20 JUNE 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.

15 JUNE 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...

15 JUNE 2022 • By Hawra Al-Nadawi
The Art of Remembrance in Abacus of Loss

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...

15 MARCH 2022 • By Sherine Elbanhawy
Atia Shafee: Raw and Distant Memories

Atia Shafee: Raw and Distant Memories

Artist Atia Shafee hopes that her paintings will "resonate, trigger, and challenge, drawing the observer into the experience,"...

15 FEBRUARY 2022 • By Mike Booth
Farzad Kohan: Love, Migration, Identity

Farzad Kohan: Love, Migration, Identity

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

15 FEBRUARY 2022 • By Meral Şimşek
Baba Karam Lessons: Artist 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...

15 FEBRUARY 2022 • By Salar Abdoh
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