Sixteen-Year-Old Underachiever is Hero of Arvin Ahmadi’s Debut Novel
By Fred Parvaneh
“Down and Across,” published by Penguin Random House, is the debut novel by Iranian-American Arvin Ahmadi: a coming-of-age story of grit and self-discovery that follows Scott Ferdowsi, a high-school student with a...
Empress Farah Republishes Pre-Revolution Memoirs, Discusses Them in Harvard Interview
By Nazanine Nouri
“1001 Days: Memoirs of an Empress” is the title of a memoir that Empress Farah Pahlavi wrote in 1976, three years before the Islamic Revolution. It was published in French in 1978,...
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...
Iran-Saudi Rivalry: How Far Does It Go? Interview with Author Simon Mabon
Simon Mabon is a lecturer in international relations at Lancaster University in the U.K. His book "Saudi Arabia and Iran: Soft Power Rivalry in the Middle East," which is currently being updated, is a...
Empress Farah Pahlavi Launches Book on Modern Art in Iran
Kayhan Life: Empress Farah Pahlavi was in London earlier this week for the launch of a new art book, “Iran Modern,” about her significant contributions to the collection and display of modern art in Iran...
Abbas Amanat’s ’Iran‘: The Challenges of History with an Attitude
By Amir Taheri
Throughout the history of writing history, that is to say since Herodotus put pen to paper, Iran has always attracted and at the same time repelled those who, for a variety of...
‘Persia, Politics, and Prison’: Hassan Nemazee Discusses New Memoir, Remembers 1970s Iran
By Kayhan Life Staff
Hassan Nemazee, the Harvard-educated Iranian entrepreneur who served time in prison in the United States on financial charges, has just released his memoir “Persia, Politics & Prison: A Life in Three...
Sotheby’s Hosts Launch of Calligraphy Book by Rose Issa and Venetia Porter
Sotheby's London recently hosted the launch of a lavishly illustrated art book on calligraphy co-authored by curator Rose Issa and by Venetia Porter, the British Museum's curator of Islamic and contemporary Middle Eastern art.
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Iran’s Clerics Will Be ‘Finished’ After Khamenei, Says Author Arash Azizi
By Ahmad Rafat
"What Iranians Want" – by the Iranian-born author and academic Arash Azizi -- is one of the first books to be published on the protest movement sparked by the September 2022 killing...
Iranian-Born Journalist Farah Nayeri Releases Book on Art and Censorship
By Natasha Phillips
Artists are regularly monitored and censored nowadays in places such as the Middle East and Asia. According to a new book by Farah Nayeri, they face complicated challenges in the West, too.
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