The Sama: Hearing with the Heart
The Sufi ritual of sama began in the 13th century with the mystic poet Jalaleddin Muhammad Rumi. The legend goes that he was walking toward […]
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Five Poems by Bijan Elahi
Bijan Elahi (July 7, 1945 – Dec 1, 2010) was a modernist poet and a prolific translator of T.S. Eliot, Arthur Rimbaud, Henri Michaux, Friedrich […]
Qeysar Aminpour (1959-2007)
AKA Kaiser Aminpour Bio Brief Qeysar [aka Kaiser] Aminpour was one of the most outstanding, and perhaps the most popular, Post-revolutionary poets of Iran whose […]
Three Poems by Hossein Nazari
i carry
dismembered memories
in my suitcase
fractured dreams
in my skull
Mirrors in Mourning: Monir Farmanfarmaian Dies
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (b. 16 December 1922 – Qazvin), one of the most internationally renowned Iranian artists passed away on 20 April, 2019. Monir was […]
Three Odes to Spring: Shafiei Kadkani
Pari Azarm Motamedi is an Iranian artist now living in Canada whose devotion to literature is manifest in her paintings. Her practice and interests for […]
Angah: A Magazine for Archiving Public Spheres of Culture, Art in Iran
The following conversation is made between Parsagon’s editor-at-large Azadeh Ghahvie and Arash Tanhai, graphic designer and founder of Angah – an archival-conceptual magazine that documents aspects […]
Summer was a sad season for Iranian Studies
Summer 2018 witnessed the death of some of the best Iranologists across the world. On 6th August 2018, Dr Leonard Lewisohn passed away at age […]
Three Poems by Ali-Akbar Sadeghi
A graduate of the College of Fine Arts, University of Tehran, Ali-Akbar Sadeghi is one of the most prolific and successful Iranian painters and artists. […]
Dariush Ashouri [b. 1938]
Bio Brief Dariush Ashouri (b. August 2, 1938, Tehran) is an eminent Iranian intellectual, linguist, translator, encyclopedist, sociocultural activist, and Hafezologist. Ashouri was born in […]