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 […]
Tehran
Portfolio: Amir-Hossein Yazdanbod
Born in 1977 in Tehran, Amirhossein studied philosophy and physics, but later changed his area to computer engineering. He started writing fiction in 2004 and […]
Ali Akbar Dehkhoda (1879-1956)
Today (February 26) coincides with the 60th death anniversary of the great author of the Persian Encyclopedia. Ali Akbar Dehkhoda was born in Tehran, 1879. […]
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 […]
20 Jan 2015
Moshfeq Kashani Dies While Performing His Last Poem The Iranian poet Moshfeq Kashani, who is considered one of the restorers of Persian classical poetry, passed […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]