Net-A-Porter Selects Sahar Asvandi, Designer of S. Joon Handbags, For Mentorship Program
By Nazanine Nouri
Sahar Asvandi is the British-Iranian designer behind the luxury handbag label S.Joon, and one of only four designers selected to participate in NET-A-PORTER’s Spring-Summer 2020 prestigious Vanguard program.
The global luxury e-commerce brand’s...
Monir Farmanfarmaian Work Sells For More than $200,000 In Online Bonhams Auction
By Nazanine Nouri
A work by the late artist Monir Farmanfarmaian sold online for 168,813 pounds ($213,000) in an auction of Middle Eastern art held by Bonhams last week.
“The Magnificent Sacred” -- a meter-wide nonagon...
‘Superabundantly Talented’ Author Ottessa Moshfegh Releases New Book
By Nazanine Nouri
Ottessa Moshfegh is an award-winning American author and novelist of Iranian descent who has published four books to great critical acclaim since 2014. Her latest -- "Death in Her Hands," described as...
Meet Samin Nosrat: Netflix Series Host, Star Chef, and Bestselling Cookbook Author
By Nazanine Nouri
Samin Nosrat is a face you'll recognize: She presents the hugely popular Netflix series “Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking,” adapted from her bestselling book. The Iranian-American chef...
Iranian-American Authors Publish New Collection of Real-Life Stories From the Diaspora
By Nazanine Nouri
“My Shadow is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora” is a recently published collection of nonfiction stories spanning the period from the 1979 Iranian revolution to the present, written by 32...
Iranian-Born Novelist Shokoofeh Azar Nominated for International Booker Prize
By Nazanine Nouri
This year’s International Booker Prize -- a global literary award for the best book translated into English and published in Britain or Ireland -- has an Iranian-born nominee: Shokoofeh Azar, for her...
Las Vegas Hosts Persian Poet Saadi in Installation by Iranian Artist Nanda Sharif-pour
By Nazanine Nouri
As the Covid-19 pandemic pushes the United States and much of the rest of the world into lockdown, a public art installation in Las Vegas by the Iranian-American artist and refugee Nanda...
Iranians Picnic Indoors As They Celebrate Sizdah-Bedar, 13th Day of New Year
By Nazanine Nouri
This week’s celebrations of the 13th day of Norouz -- Sizdah Bedar -- have been clouded by the Coronavirus outbreak in Iran, as millions of Iranians have been prevented from picnicking outdoors...
Iranians All Over the World Celebrate Nowruz Amid Coronavirus Outbreak
By Nazanine Nouri
More than 300 million people around the world are celebrating Nowruz -- the Persian New Year. Iranians are foremost among them. Yet this year’s New Year celebrations are taking place against a...
Iranian Photographer Bahman Jalali Remembered in Boston Museum Exhibition
By Nazanine Nouri
“Reimagining Home” is the title of an exhibition featuring the work of the late Iranian photographer Bahman Jalali and his former student Gohar Dashti at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
The...
