Akbarpour: Horror Genre the New Generation’s First Priority
Ahmad Akbarpour (born 1970 in Chah Varz, Lamerd County, Fars Province) is one of Iran’s most prolific writers of children’s and young adult literature. He […]
Articles by Mahboube Khalvati
Dare the Sea: A Review
Dare the Sea, the debut English short story collection by Iranian American novelist Ali Hosseini, was published by the Northwestern University Press in 2023. The […]
Gholamhossein Sa’edi [1936 – 1985]
We Iranians who had among us Sa’edi, the physician-dramatist that taught us how to anatomize social maladies both on the stage and on the screen, […]
Labour, Literature and More
I simply could not ignore the Labour Day while writing the editorial of Parsagon’s May issue. So happy Labour Day to all! The irony of […]
On Mobility and More
After years of dreaming, months of contemplating and discussing and weeks of researching and writing, The Parsagon Review was launched in November 2013; a year […]
Hails to the e-Real
Browsing in the card catalogues of libraries always fascinated me for two reasons; firstly, the excitement of finding the book I eagerly wanted to read, […]
Dr Behzad Ghaderi’s Top Sevens
Born in 1953 in the South-Eastern city of Zahedan, Behzad Ghaderi should be regarded as the cavalier of Drama Studies in Iran. A peerless translator, […]
Mirza Fathali Akhundzadeh and Iranian Drama
Despite the Persian poetry, the Persian drama did not root in the ancient history of Iran. With a modern background, the history of the Persian […]
Mohsen Ghane Basiri’s Top 7s
Mohsen Ghane Basiri (b. 1949) is the editor-in-chief of Modiriat (Management) Monthly Journal. He is a prolific Iranian theorist and epistemologist. Ghane Basiri is the […]
Mohammad Taghi Kahnamouee (1919 – 1984)
Mohammad-Taghi Kahnamouee (1919-1984) was born in Tehran, Iran. Having played in more than one hundred movies as a graduate of Acting High School, Kahnamouee’s activity as a writer was overshadowed.