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
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
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
"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)
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
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