Abadan, The Rise and Demise of an Oil Metropolis
The image of Abadan as a vanguard city of oil-driven modernity was transformed by its role in the 19[...]








French-Iranian Writer’s Debut NovelI’m always chasing after the present. But the present doesn’t exist. It’s only an intermission, a temporary respite, which might at any moment be swept away, de...
“Until we leave this plain of sin and pride…” Attar’s Conference of the BirdsFarid-ad-Din Muhammad Attar (1145-1220) is one of the three pillars of Persian Sufi literature. Sana’i Ghaznavi, who for the first time, exerted love poetry to ...
Ferdowsi and ShahnamehBy: Abdulhussein Zarrinkoub Each nation’s poetry can be classified into several distinctive types. One is the poem about the beauty of a lover or the spring ...
Website is archived.