It is the year 1775. There are still 120 years to go before Joseph Roth is born, nearly 170 before Auschwitz, and 251 before thousands of Iranians are killed, injured,
A Comparative Look at the Fate of Human Values in Ferdowsi’s Story of Zahhak and Shakespeare’s Richard III
The short story The White Stone by Ghazi Rabihavi is about the mechanics of an event. On the surface, the story is about the execution of a man who has
Today I want to talk about a novel that is, in one respect, remarkably fresh and significant in contemporary Persian fiction. Not because no crime or detective novels have ever
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
Rereading Shahrnush Parsipur Through the Lens of Magical Realism
A Look at Iran in Time Magazine and a Conversation with Ali Sajadi, Journalist and Researcher of Modern Iranian History and Literature
“Let's hope they don't hit Veresk.” That was his first reaction when he heard about the attack on the B1 Bridge. He did not ask where B1 was, nor what
"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)