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 […]
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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 […]
Ahmad Samiee Guilani [1920-2023]
UPDATED [Mar 2023]: Ahmad Samiee Guilani passed away on March 2, 2023 at age 103 in Tehran. Ahmad Samiee Guilani is an eminent writer, translator, […]
Dariush Shayegan, Author of Cultural Schizophrenia Dies
Iranian thinker and cultural theorist Dariush Shayegan passed away today (March 22) at Firouzgar Hospital of Tehran after two months in a coma.
Samin Baghcheban [1925 – 2008]
It was that time of the year again; the time that the scent of hyacinths fuses with the smell of vinegar, and the goldfish bounces […]
Simin: Versifier of a Nation’s Sentiments & Sorrows
For more than a half-century, the arena of contemporary Persian literature has been graced with the luminous presence of two Simins: Simin Daneshvar and Simin […]
Profile: Ruyin Pakbaz [b. 1939]
Ruyin Pakbaz (1939, Tehran) is a prominent Iranian art historian, critic, educator and painter. He studied painting at Tehran University (1967) and then pursued his […]
Bijan Najdi [1941-1997]
Bijan Najdi (15 November 1941 in Khash, Iran – 25 August 1997 in Lahijan, Iran) was an Iranian short story writer and poet best known […]
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 […]
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 […]