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[...]
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Even before US President Donald Trump began threatening to re-impose sanctions on Iran, foreign inve[...]
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Iranian Illustrator Wins 2017 Moonbeam Children’s Book AwardThe 2017 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards have been announced and Iranian artist Hoda Hadadi has won the Gold award for illustrating the book Drummer Girl. ...
“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 ...
Shalom: The First and Only Hebrew Publication in IranShalom: The First and Only Hebrew Publication in Iran A hundred years ago –on March 22nd, 1915 (the first day of Farvardin 1294), the first and only Hebrew w...