1910s – PARSAGON

Mohammad Taghi Kahnamouee (1919 – 1984)

April 1, 2014 Sadjad Pourghannad 0

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.

Mohammad Ghazi

January 14, 2014 Shataw Naseri 0

January 14 is marked by the demise of a prolific translator many of whose translations are still unrivaled and stay on the pinnacles of Persian […]

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 […]
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 […]
Kadkani, a Gem of Khorasan

There are not many literary scholars in the history of Persian literature who are also great poets; neither are there many poets who made it […]
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 […]
Mohammad Reza Ale Ebrahim [b. 1951]

Mohammad Reza Ale Ebrahim was born on 24 October 1951 in one of the poor districts of Estahban, Fars province. His passion for teaching made […]

Angah: A Magazine for Archiving Public Spheres of Culture, Art in Iran

Sohrab’s Way – by Martin Turner

Kadkani, a Gem of Khorasan

Goli Taraghi [b. 1939]

Mohammad Reza Ale Ebrahim [b. 1951]