Roger Sedarat: Hafez and Saadi’s Substantial Impact on the 19th Century U.S. Literary Tradition
medium.com - With the goal of harnessing the untapped potential of Iranian-Americans, and to build the capacity of the Iranian…
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Iran’s burgeoning ‘resistance literature’: A new front?
Al-Monitor - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's spokesperson for Arab Media, Ofir Gendelman, recently accused the organizers of the Tehran…
Interview with Ashk Dahlen, author of The Persian Empire
PayvandNews - Ashk Dahlen was born in Tehran in 1972 and has lived most of his life in Sweden. He…
Interview with Literary Figure Alireza Behnam on Censorship
CHRI - “Authors have learned that they cannot write about things that are against the country’s official religion, or against…
Translating the Legacy of Ahmad Shamlou, One of Iran’s Greatest Poets
hyperallergic.com — Niloufar Talebi’s Self-Portrait in Bloom, a hybrid memoir of prose and poetry with some photos thrown in, delves into the…
Monir Farmanfarmaian, 96, Dies; Artist Melded Islam and the Abstract
NYT - Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, an Iranian artist whose mirror-encrusted geometric compositions drew on both Islamic architecture and the abstractions…
Winners Of 2019 Fajr International Film Festival Announced
PayvandNews- The Fajr International Film Festival announced the full lineup of winners at Tehran's Vahdat Hall for their 37th year…
Tehran Municipality negotiating to restore Taq Kasra in Iraq
PayvandNews - Tehran Municipality is in talks with Baghdad's urban planners and authorities to restore a number of aging monuments…
Iran Celebrates National Day Of Poet Sadi
PayvandNews - Persian literature aficionados and literati from across Iran came together at the mausoleum of Persian poet Sadi in…
Monir Farmanfarmaian, Prominent Iranian Artist, Dies At 97
VOA - Prominent Iranian artist Monir Farmanfarmaian has died in her home in Tehran at the age of 97, the…