A Reflection on the Relationship Between Football, Poetry, and Cinema Through the Ideas of Pier Paolo Pasolini, on the Occasion of the 2026 FIFA World Cup in Mexico, Canada, and
In Marjane Satrapi’s imaginative universe, death is never the end of the story. The dead return through memory, image, and language. It is as though storytelling performs the same function
Reflections on Marilyn Monroe’s Early Death and the Secret of Her Mythic Status on the Centenary of Her Birth
A Look at 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days on the Occasion of Romanian Director Cristian Mungiu Winning the Palme d'Or Again in 2026
A Comparison Between the Babi Yar Massacre in Kyiv and the Iranian Holocaust Through the Poetry of Yevtushenko
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