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