Abbas Kiarostami

Selected Articles

• Curves of Iran

  [embed]https://vimeo.com/143320922[/embed] "Curves are everywhere in Eastern culture: our writing, our architecture, our instruments, the way we dance; even ...

  
  
• “Until we leave this plain of sin and pride…” Attar’s Conference of the Birds

  Farid-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 ...

  
  
• Molla, Laughter, and the Constitution

  Iran’s constitutional revolutionary movement attracted many writers, poets, and artists and gave them the opportunity to fight the tyranny of the Qajar court, t...