Paris-Based Artist Hanieh Delecroix Highlights Plight of Iranian Women
By Katayoun Shahandeh
Hanieh Delecroix is an Iranian-born artist living in Paris who left Iran after the Revolution and whose recent work, dedicated to the plight of Iranian women, went on display at the Salon...
‘Tehran Taboo’ Animation Movie Has London Premiere
By Tara Biglari
As a pink autumnal sunset descended over London on the evening of October 2nd, eager cinephiles made their way into the BFI Southbank movie theater to watch a preview screening of “Tehran...
Persepolis’s Lions and Bulls Star in an Exhibition in Northern Italy
By Ahmad Rafat
For the first time ever, archaeological treasures from the Museum of Persepolis and the National Museum of Iran travelled abroad earlier this year for an exhibition titled “Lions and Bulls from Ancient...
Working with Tupac: Interview with Music Video Producer-Director Rahimi
By: Fred Parvaneh
As a lifelong lover of music, Gobi M. Rahimi is a prolific music video producer and director who has worked with some of the biggest names in the music industry, including Snoop...
Iranian Theater Manager, Director Detained After Release of Play Teaser
Saeed Asadi, the manager of the City Theater of Tehran, and Maryam Kazemi, the director of a musical adaptation of William Shakespeare’s comedy “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” have been arrested by security agents after...
Silenced Musicians of Iran Come Together on Homanity Album
Music in Iran dates back thousands of years. Archeological records from the 3rd millennium BC shown that some of the earliest complex instruments, such as the harp, were played there.
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder...
Award-winning Photographer Reza Looks Back on a Prolific Career
Reza Deghati is one of the world's most famous photojournalists - so famous that he goes by his first name alone.
An awardwinning National Geographic photographer, he has for the past three decades captured countless...
Life At the Italian Embassy in Tehran: Ambassador’s Daughter Writes Graphic Novel
By Ahmad Rafat
Chiara Mezzalama has a special relationship with Iran: She moved there two years after the 1979 Revolution when her father, Francesco Mezzalama, became the Italian ambassador to Tehran. They lived in the...
Venice Film Festival Hosts Filmmakers Shirin Neshat, Khatami
Four Iranian directors are presenting their movies at this year's Venice Film Festival (which ends Sept. 9), all of them outside of the official competition. They include Shirin Neshat, who won the festival's Silver...
Iranian Refugee Portrait Leads Hoda Afshar to Win Australia’s Top Photography Award
The Melbourne-based, Iranian-born artist Hoda Afshar is the 2018 winner of the Bowness Photography Prize, Australia’s most important photography award, for her “Portrait of Behrouz Boochani, Manus Island.”
Afshar was selected from among 50 finalists...
