L’Iris d’Or

Selected Articles

• “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 ...

  
  
• Jafar Panahi’s New Film: Three Faces

  Jafar Panahi’s new film “Three Faces” is in the competitions of Cannes film festival. The Iranian director, currently under house arrest, has delivered a purpos...

  
  
• 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...