As Though Someone Is Laughing at Little Girls!
Written by Mehrnaz Shirazi-Adl From the short story collection That’s Perhaps the Only Way (شاید تنها راهش همین باشد) – Qatreh Publications, 2016. Translated from the Persian […]
Articles by Leili Adibfar
Samin Baghcheban [1925 – 2008]
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Bloom, Rahmani, and the Aestheticization of Bitterness
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For the Love of Autumn, for the Promise of Hybridity
How do we know why we love something? Or, how would our feeling of appreciation be different if we begin to understand why we have […]
Goli Taraghi [b. 1939]
The first chapter of Goli Taraghi’s Two Worlds, “The First Day,” begins with the narrator finding herself stunned and silent at a psychiatric hospital, stuck […]
From Translation to Creation
Less than a year ago, a friend called upon me to translate a play from Persian to English. After replying “yes” without any hesitation, I […]
On the Concept of Celebration
My grandparents’ home was not the center of the world for every child on the planet, neither was Nowruz the New Year celebration and Sizdah […]