Iran
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February 6, 2020 |
Photo by R. Romero © 2019 Poupeh Missaghi (@PoupehMissaghi) is a writer, educator, and a translator both into and out of Persian. She also serves as Iran’s editor at large for... -
November 26, 2019 |
Photo of Tehran by Xiquinho Silva / Flickr A writer in Tehran incapable of entering the US under the Muslim travel ban encounters Michelle Obama’s Becoming in a beauty salon. Reading... -
July 25, 2019 |
Photo by Stephen A. Wolfe / Flickr Flamingo #13 may have been the most beautiful flamingo in the world the villagers had ever heard of. All throughout the year, there was talk of it everywhere. When... -
May 9, 2019 |
Ahmad Shamlou (left) | Photo by Hadi Shafaieh. Niloufar Talebi (right) | Photo by Devlin Shand In Self-Portrait in Bloom, Niloufar Talebi (www.niloufartalebi.com) tells her story of gro... -
July 20, 2017 |
Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani died of breast cancer on July 15 at the age of 40. A professor at Stanford University, Mirzakhani became the first woman to win the prestigious Fields Meda... -
April 12, 2017 |
Attar’s The Conference of the Birds, just released in a new translation, is a deeply meaningful and spiritual work, delightfully packed with lively banter, pathos, clever hyperbole, cheek... -
August 21, 2015 |
Mia Couto. Photo by Shevaun Williams. News, Reviews, and Interviews Online literary magazine The Mantle is starting its own publishing imprint under the same name. Its focus will be on inte... -
May 15, 2013 |New Windows into the Iranian American Experience: An Interview with Anita Amirrezvani & Persis Karim
Left: Anita Amirrezvani Right: Persis Karim Perhaps best known to the American public for the memoir genre, Iranian American literature has expanded considerably since the lat...
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