Vartan: a poem by Ahmad Shamlou
Today is Ahmad Shamlou’s 92nd birthday, a blessed occasion to read one of his finest poems: “Vartan didn’t Say a Word” is a political poem […]
Dariush Shayegan, Author of Cultural Schizophrenia Dies
Iranian thinker and cultural theorist Dariush Shayegan passed away today (March 22) at Firouzgar Hospital of Tehran after two months in a coma.
Sohrab’s Way – by Martin Turner
Graduated in psychology from the University of Exceter, Martin V. Turner (1948 – 2009) an educational psychologist, poet and translator. As a translator of a […]
Fariba Vafi nominated for LiBeratur Prize
Iranian author Fariba Vafi has been nominated for the LiBeratur Prize, a literary honor that is presented by the Litprom Association in Frankfurt. She received […]
Karnameh Exhibition: A Diorama of Arts for Iranian Children
It has often been difficult to trace the development of early children’s literature, widely practiced in the form of stories and songs for children, before […]
Books that Changed My Life: Fereshteh Ahmadi
“Thrush in the Cage” written by Nima Youshij is the first book I borrowed after my first library subscription. I was only ten, and with this book I felt I seriously stepped into the world of readers. Under the influence of the big notebook on which my name was written, and the subscription paper that my teacher had to sign, I read the book even more carefully and gave a thought to the moral point of the story. Surprisingly not long after this feeling, another book push me into a completely different world: “Devilin theDusk”1. The cover showed the picture of a girl withblond hair who was running along a the street and a black car was chasing afterher.
