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[...]

Iranian-Dutch Artist Atousa BandehAtousa’s mind-boggling paintings and drawings have many autobiographical elements. These tend to be her most intimate, and therefore all the more universal, exp...
The Book of Kings on the CyberNo book in Persian history has been more inspiring and culturally popular than Shahnameh- The Book of Kings. [caption id="attachment_87" align="alignright" w...
Stop Denigrating Public IntellectualsIn her latest op-ed in Guardian, Elif Shafak writes about the importance of West’s public intellectuals to raise their voices against the trend of populism, nat...
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