Iran

Fire, Earth, Spring: Unity and Resistance in the Lands of SWANA

Sahar Delijani on the Legacies of the Arab Spring

 
By Sahar Delijani  January 23, 2024
Censorship

Dotted Lines: On Writing and Humiliation Under Iranian Censorship

By Moeen Farrokhi  August 24, 2023
Keen On

Abdi Nazemian on Why He’s Happy Being Known As a Queer Writer

By Keen On  June 9, 2023
Protest

“No Veils, No Oppression!” Watching From a Distance As Women Fight for Freedom in Iran

By Sahar Delijani  January 27, 2023
Writers in Conversation

Susanne Pari on Iran’s Rich History of Feminist Rebellion

By Jane Ciabattari  January 3, 2023
Fiction/Non/Fiction

Women Resisting Terror in Iran: Porochista Khakpour on the Historic Protests

By Fiction Non Fiction  October 27, 2022
Open Source

On the Stalled Negotiations Over Reviving the Iran Nuclear Deal

By Open Source  May 13, 2022
War

The New Weapons of War: Disinformation, Economic Coercion, and Online Disruption

By Seth G. Jones  September 28, 2021
Political Narratives

Reading is a Political Encounter: On Violence, Language, and Selective Forgetting

By Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi  August 3, 2021
Persian Literature

A Brief History of Metaphor in
Persian Poetry

By Dick Davis  February 9, 2021
Keen On

On 1979 and the Unraveling of the Modern Middle East

By Keen On  December 21, 2020
The Middle East

When the US Became a Rogue State in the Middle East

By David Barsamian  October 5, 2020
Censorship

Navigating Literary Censorship—and Worse—in Iran

By Amir Ahmadi Arian  September 28, 2020
American Politics

The View From Iran: On the Consequences of a Trump Presidency

By Salar Abdoh  September 1, 2020
Immigration

Travels with Barbie, From Tehran to Paris to New York

By Porochista Khakpour  May 21, 2020
Book Clubs

Refuge, Gossip, and Revelation on the Private Book Club Circuit

By Marjan Kamali  March 13, 2020
War

Lessons From the Qur’an as the Bombs Fell on Tehran

By Alireza Doostdar  March 13, 2020
Middle East

The Political and Narrative War for the Iranian Dead

By Poupeh Missaghi  March 12, 2020
Iran

Trump Threatened Iranian Cultural Sites. This Is What They Look Like.

By Terence Ward  March 12, 2020
Revolutions

A Novel That Celebrates—and Mourns—Pre-Revolutionary Iran

By Dina Nayeri  February 11, 2020
Fiction vs. Nonfiction

How We See Iran: A Brief History of Fictions at a Distance

By Ali Araghi  November 26, 2019
Influences

Azar Nafisi on Finding Herself in the Writing of Vladimir Nabokov

By Azar Nafisi  November 11, 2019
Daily Fiction

“Shafaq Park”

By Lit Hub Excerpts  July 31, 2019
The Hub

PEN calls on Australia to resettle Behrouz Boochani

By Corinne Segal  June 20, 2019
Essay

My Return to Tehran: On Family, Restlessness, and Revolution

By Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi  September 27, 2018
Criticism

The Legendary Iranian Poet Who Gives Me Hope

By Jasmin Darznik  July 30, 2018
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