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
For nearly 40 years, writes Sara Mokhavat, her generation in Iran has gone from one crisis to another.
24 OCTOBER 2022 • By Sara Mokhavat
In HEROINES, artists pay homage to the late Mahsa Jhina Amini and the women-led uprising for freedom in...
15 OCTOBER 2022 • By
When an oppressive, insulting cleric makes life unbearable at a university campus in Tehran, students rebel. Pandemonium ensues.
15 OCTOBER 2022 • By Sara Mokhavat
Noushin Afzali profiles multimedia artist Shirin Mohammad, who glides back and forth between Berlin, Bremen and Tehran.
15 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Hannah Fox
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
One of contemporary Iran's best storytellers conjures a tale of octogenarian love in a Nabokovian mode.
15 JUNE 2022 • By Alireza Iranmehr
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
Sherine Elbanhawy lives in the pages of a memoir in verse and finds herself reluctant to leave, identifying...
15 MARCH 2022 • By Sherine Elbanhawy
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's art is a bridge and commentary on his Iranian and American worlds, sometimes converging, at other...
15 FEBRUARY 2022 • By Meral Şimşek
Iranian American artist Amitis Motevalli performs "baba karam" dance lessons, in a caricature of the street tough dance...
15 FEBRUARY 2022 • By Salar Abdoh