Cultural Critique

I had just emigrated. I was alone, confused, and emotionally adrift. I had found a job that was new and exciting to me, but also filled with anxiety and both

“Storytelling rights are not as widely recognized as other rights, but they are no less important.” This statement, made by David Denborough in the introduction to his Charter of Storytelling

At a time when Iranian society is struggling under a multitude of economic, political, cultural, and social crises, perhaps the most important question is not “Who should save society?” but

I go over your words again—not today, not now, but through every waking hour and all these days when even our laughter hurts. Your voice comes to me even in

Now, in the days following the loss of the beloved Shahrnush Parsipur, perhaps the most fitting tribute is to reflect on the place she earned through six decades of creative

"The mistake of the one who walks, eats, sleeps, and loves, and then builds a cemetery is greater than ours; it is a first-degree error, a mortal sin." (2019)

Many of us carry rigid and deeply rooted value systems that we regard not only as right for ourselves, but as an absolute good for humanity as a whole. This

If we are to offer a proper analysis of this phenomenon, we must return to some of Melanie Klein’s earlier ideas concerning the issues discussed above. In this regard, we

Psychoanalytic Analysis of the Dictator Through the Lens of a Film by Juraj Herz If we wish to analyze and dissect the figure of the dictator, before anything else we

“If photographs of war truly possess such power, why, after so many horrifying images, has war itself not stopped?”