Afra or the Day Passes: A Structuralist Reading (I)
Afra, or the Day Passes by Bahram Bayzayi (b. 1938), the prolific Iranian screenwriter, playwright and director, was published in 1998 but was only premiered […]
Paragon
All Faces of Forough: an Iconographic Report
79 years after her birth, an exhibition was held in Tehran in January 2014 to present the portraits of Forough made by a number of veteran and emerging artists…
Published: Hasanak According to Dowlatabadi
The renowned Iranian author Mahmud Dowlatabadi’s latest book on the story of the chancellorship of Hasanak the Vizier (based on Persian historian Abul-Fazl Bayhaqi’s “Masudian […]
Men at Work: Cinematic Lessons from Abbas Kiarostami
Mahmoud-Reza Sani, a name that we will be hearing more in the future, has been a student of Kiarostami during a European workshop. Now comes […]
The Spell Chanted by Lambs
Title: The Spell Chanted by Lambs Series: Contemporary Iranian Novel Author(s): Reza Ghassemi, Erfan Mojib (translator) Genre: Fiction, Novel, Postmodernist Literature Publisher: Candle & Fog […]
Let Us Steal a Lease of Life
Let Us Steal a Lease of Life: interview with Martin Turner English psychologist, poet and translator 28th August 2003 Raised in Post-War plenty, I could […]
The Blind Owl
Author: Sadeq Hedayat Translator: D. B. Costello Publication Date: 1937 (Persian); 1958 (English) ISBN: 9780802144287 The night was departing on tip-toe. One felt that it had shed sufficient […]