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    • Volume 05: 2018
    • Volume 00: STARTUP

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

December 28, 2018 Azadeh Ghahvie 0

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 […]

PROFILE

  • Qeysar Aminpour (1959-2007)

    October 31, 2019 0

PIECE

  • Five Poems by Bijan Elahi

    December 1, 2019 0

PRIZE

  • Abolhassan Najafi Translation Award

    January 28, 2019 0

PODIUM

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

    December 28, 2018 0

PRISM

  • Sohrab’s Way – by Martin Turner

    October 7, 2017 0

PAPYRUS

  • Postscript to Silence

    May 3, 2019 0

PENDULUM

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Tehran Story Award

    Tehran Story Award (or as Zibasazi has entitled it, Tehran’s Story Award) was founded in 2014 by TBO (Tehran Beautification Organization, dependnt of the Municipality […]

  • December 26: Day of Sorrow, Day of Death

    December 26 is a jolly occasion for most people of the world for the birth of Jesus Christ. Not for the majority of Iranians, not […]

  • Homage to the Singer of Naseria

    Today (December 20) coincides with the seventh death anniversary of Iranian Pop Star Naser Abdollahi who, despite his brief twinkle in the arena of Iranian […]

  • R.I.P. Farrokh Ghaffari (1921 – 2006)

    Today (December 17) is marked with the death anniversary of Iranian film director, actor, critic and author Farrokh Ghaffari. Ghaffari was a significant character in […]

  • Happy Birthday Shamlou! Happy Birthday Baraheni!

    Today is the birthday anniversary of the acclaimed Iranian poet Ahmad Shamlou (born December 12, 1925), the Godfather of contemporary Persian poetry and almost the […]

  • Badiozzaman Forouzanfar Award

    Professor Badiozzaman Forouzanfar (originally named Mohammad-Hassan Boshruyei) was born on 12 July 1904 in Boshruyeh of Ferdows County and passed away on May 6, 1970. His […]

FEATURE: TOP 7×7

  • Peyman Esmaeili’s Favorite Books

    Peyman Esmaeili was born in 1977 in Tehran. He studied electronics engineering at Iran University of Science & Technology, meanwhile he was a member of […]

  • Elli Dehnavi Recommends

    Born in 1980 in Mashhad, Elli Dehnavi is a writer, editor, and literary translator who also does academic research on Middle Eastern cinema and literature. […]

  • Natasha Moharramzadeh’s Top Reads

    Natasha Moharramzadeh was born in 1979 in the northern city of Lahijan. She holds an MA degree in Art Research from the Art University of […]

  • Top 2014 Literary Translations From Persian

    The year just passed was not that fruitful in the number of Persian literary works translated into English; the list hardly exceeds ten. In terms […]

  • Aida Runs over Behnam Naseh’s Bookshelves

    Born in 1973 in Rasht, Behnam Naseh is a published writer, editor, and journalist. His debut novel Irandokht was the praiseworthy winner of the 16th […]

  • In the Library of Payman Fiuzat

    Born in 1981 in Tehran, Payman Fiuzat started his studies as an electronics student at Azad University but then changed his major to English translation a while later, […]

  • Sholeh Wolpe’s Top Sevens

    The Parsagon Review’s October guest is a literary mediator between two cultures with her translations especially of contemporary Iranian poetry and prose. Sholeh Wolpé is […]

  • Hamed Esmaeilion Recommends

    Hamed Esmaeilion, a Mr. March born in 1977 in Kermanshah, should be categorized among the new post-war generation of novelists in Iran who have a real […]

  • Illustrator Morteza Zahedi’s Favorite Fiction

     Renowned painter, illustrator and sculptor Morteza Zahedi was born in 1978 in Rasht, Iran. Zahedi graduated in painting in 1995 and ever since then has held […]

  • Mehdi Navid Recommends

    Born in 1981 in Kermanshah and brought up in Tehran, Mehdi Navid is a writer, translator and editor best known for his translations of Beckett […]

  • 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, […]

  • The Top Seven Books of Belgheis Soleimani

    Writer and literary critic Belgheis Soleimani was born in April 1963 in a rural area near Kerman. She started her literary career as a researcher […]

  • 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 […]

  • 7 Popular Iranian Children’s Books: Editors Pick

    Since 1967, International Children’s Book Day (ICBD) is celebrated on April 2, on or around Hans Christian Andersen’s birthday, to inspire the love of reading […]

  • Ale Ebrahim Recommends

    Mohammadreza Ale-Ebrahim, our February 2014 featured writer, was born in Estahban in 1951 and holds a double B.A. in Training Sciences (management and planning) and […]

  • The Top Sevens in the Library of Robab Moheb

    Born in 1953 in the Southeastern city of Ahvaz, Iran, Robab Moheb studied sociology at the University of Tehran and, after immigration to Sweden in […]

  • Curator Ali Bakhtiari Recommends

    Of the youngest prolific Iranian curators, Ali Bakhtiari was born in 1985, Tehran. He started his career as a curator in 2008 with a retrospective of Faramarz Pilaram at Gallery 66 in Tehran.

  • Reza Sarraf Recommends

    Born in 1975 in Tehran, Gholamreza Sarraf holds a BA in Dramatic Literature and an MA in Cinema from Art University of Tehran. “Out of […]

  • The Goethe Medal Winner Recommends

    Born in 1947 in Damavand, Sayyed-Mahmoud Hosseinizad is a dramatist, short story writer and one of the world-known literary translators of Iran who received the […]

  • The Marbels Man Recommends

    Short story writer and literary critic, Amirhosein Yazdanbod was born in 1977 in Tehran and studied physics and philosophy, two fields of science that have […]

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