Abbas Kiarostami – PARSAGON

Seven Poems by Abbas Kiarostami

July 29, 2016 parsagon 0

Postmortem Taste of Cherry: Abbas Kiarostami Deceased

July 14, 2016 Farzaneh Doosti 0

Abbas Kiarostami, the award-winning Iranian director whose 1997 film Taste of Cherry was awarded the Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival, died aged 76, following […]

Men at Work: Cinematic Lessons from Abbas Kiarostami

December 1, 2013 parsagon 0

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 […]

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]