A look at the short story “Forty-Eight Steps” by Paxima Mojavezi in the anthology International Short Stories, Penguin Books, 2026
Twenty years have passed since The Lives of Others was made. Twenty years since that gray winter—a cold season in which voices were not merely voices, but evidence of guilt,
Aref: A Man for All Seasons
My Husband’s Down Pillow is a novel by Fatemeh Zarei, an Iranian author based in Washington, D.C., published in recent months by Asemana Publishing in Toronto. This 196-page work is
I first saw Hana Kamkar on a theater stage in the 2000s, in a production where she played Anahita, the goddess of water
It Was Just an Accident opens with a scene inside a car. A man whose face is familiar to supporters of the Islamic government
A look at one of Frank Gehry’s major works, the “Dancing House” in Prague, on the occasion of his passing.
It is night. A young woman enters her home and calls for her mother. No answer comes. She begins searching the house, eventually finding her mother unconscious in the bathroom.
Women, Life, Freedom: The Irreversible Path is a collection of interviews with Iranian women in cinema who, following the "Women, Life, Freedom" movement, faced bans from working due to their
Bamdad-e Khomar is the title of a new series directed by Narges Abyar, whose first four episodes were recently released on the Shida streaming platform, following the conclusion of the