Queen Soraya Sees Spring Fashions (1955)
byIt was a well known fact that the Shah of Iran’s second wife was his true love. Due to lack of an heir, fate of their…
April, 2014
Pat Perry's Dreamlike Memories
by“For a while, it scared me to not have just one distinctive style, but I want to stay honest and boundary-less with what direction…
Women in Tehran's Streets
byMohammad Roodgoli has all the essential tools for capturing street photos. Choice of the right lens, shutter speeds, angels, ability to recognize the natural…
Inside an American Brothel
byMarc McAndrews, a photographer from New York, in his project called “Nevada Rose: Inside the American BrothelL” tries to portray the ordinary life in…
Is Capitalism Failed the World
byThomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-first Century is a balanced approach to the major theme of the global economical inequality. He believes that not…
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Sormeh, a Persian Folk Music Band
byGolnar Shahyar’s voice, the lead vocalist for the Sormeh Band, is the remedy for a rainy Sunday afternoon, when a cup of coffee and…
Charlie Chaplin, monster
byBy 1915, says Ackroyd, Chaplin was ‘the most famous man in the world’. Lenin said that ‘Chaplin is the only man in the world…
the Craziness of Being a Woman
byLaila Kordbacheh is a woman whose poetry unlocks the innermost fragile layers of being a woman. It is soft, yet stubborn. It is bold,…
The New Yorker's Cartoonist
byEvery week more than 1000 cartoons and caricatures are sent to The New Yorker, out of which, only 17 are chosen to be featured…
When Dance Prohibited in Iran
byOne of our readers told us about this amature video from Iran. The owner of a small corner store watches a band of street…
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Deconstructing Woody
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Me and My Four Husbands
byThe Islamis Polygamy law, allowing men to acquire four wives at the same time as long as each is treated equally as others, has…
The Conflict Between Competition and Leisure
byIn 1930 the economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that increases in productivity due to technological progress would lead within a century to most people…
Unfit Iranian Men and a Movie Called NOTHING
byIn his film “Nothing,” Abdolreza Kahani expresses his disappointment in Iranian men in an angry tone. That is why he gives the final choice…
The Ugly Truth
byOur own culture appears to be no less afraid of ugliness than Greek culture, even if surgical rather than divine intervention is now the…
َAmerican Girl in Iran
by25 years old Silvia is from Worcester, MA USA, but she likes to tell people I’m from Norway. After spending the past three and…
Nick Cave, Foreplay in a Song
by«Henry Lee» is a song from the album “Murder Ballads”, by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. The song is about a crime of…
Cooking for Oneself
byIts a Friday night, and I am on my way home after a along day’s work. What’s for dinner? I decide to stop at…
New York’s Underground
byOriginally from Cleveland, Tod Seelie, the American Photographer, at times elevates mere weirdness to a more striking realm of visual intrigue, through his photographic…
Portrait of the Underdog
byThey say a picture is worth a thousand words, and each photo captured by the photographer from Israel, Ziv Ish, speaks volumes of pain,…
Bob Dylan and Iranian lovers
byThere is speculation that Dylan’s recent album ‘Tempest’ could be his last mainly because the title of his work is almost resonates Shakespeare’s last…