Mohammad Reza Shajarian (1940 – 2020)
byIranians Grieve Death Of Legendary Singer Mohammad Reza Shajarian
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The First kiss in The Movie
byThe Kiss arrived in 1896, when movies were still a captivating new concept. Auguste and Louis Lumiere had just begun showing off their cinematograph—a hand-crank…
Cyber Curfew in Iran
byUpdate: #Iran has now been offline for 52 hours following a government-imposed internet shutdown targeting widespread public protests. National connectivity remains at just 5%…
Banksy painting self-destructs after being sold at auction
byBanksy has now become a household name, and that his work achieves strong prices at major auctions is no longer a curiosity or exception….
The Most Feared Song In Jazz, Explained
byMaking sense of John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps.”
The Islamic Science Fiction Then and Now
byCenturies before invisible men, time travel, flying machines and journeys to other planets and before the Western Imagination, there was the Abbasid caliphs that…
Being Hassan for Morocco
byA photographer, designer, and filmmaker, Hassan Hajjaj is one of Morocco’s preeminent international artists, sometimes called his native country’s answer to Andy Warhol. Entirely…
Dance About I Hate Dancing
byDirecter, choreographer , dancer and filmmaker Jo Roy made a playful video based on a poem by British actor and comedian Stephen Fry…
Illusionist Painter
byRob Gonsalves is a 55-year-old Canadian of Portuguese descent who paints scenes that fill in the space somewhere in between everyday activities and hallucinations….
Iranian Homosexuals in an Album
byBorn to Iranian parents but growing up with Swiss upbringing gave Laurence Rasti critical mind that has a flavors of both culture. In her project “There Are…
A guy in our office is going through a divorce
byHe is distracted and depressed and hardly focused. He is constantly complaining, skipping on office work and missing deadlines. And to top it all…
If you are the Prince, I would be your persian Princess
byI was running late to work as usual, on the morning April 21st. Jumped in the car and started the engine. The radio got on and…
I’m not your girlfriend honey, just be fast
byThe door bell rang and the boy ran to the door monitor and picked up the phone with no hesitation. Right before, he…
A brief history of Iranian cinema
byTo best understand the roots of Iranian cinema, one must perhaps travel back to the early 20th century, when the Qajar monarch Mozaffareddin Shah…
I am still *mesmerized*
byIt was midday, almost noon. I was at the office and dad called, wondering about my plans for lunch. And I talked about not…
First Illustrated Persian Translation of Allan Poe’s The Raven
byAllan Poe’s “The Raven” had been translated to Persian in the past, but this edition is a distinguished artifice because of its approach to both publication and translation….
Iranian Jewellery Designers in Instagram
byIt seems that the jewellery design industry is booming in Iran. In the last 10 years there has been a new revival for this…
Toronto Film Festival and All the Crying Men
byCrying male protagonists appeared in the first two films that I saw in this year’s TIFF. It came to my mind that maybe I should look for a trend, the unexpected snivelling…
Iranian Fusion Band "Circle" CD Release – Toronto
byThis is the band that we introduced in our Persian magazine and we claimed that they got very close to adapting our beloved poet…
The Loss of High Culture
byThis loss of high culture is not an American phenomenon alone. English intellectual and artistic life has fallen off greatly since the generation of…
A Film About Iranian Divorced Woman
byIda panahandeh’s first feature film ‘Nahid’ has been selected in Cannes Festival 2015 official selection. Nahid is a divorced woman who lives in a…
The Boys of Kabul Dreams
byKabul Dreams is a young ensemble blooming on the same grounds. Being the first modern punk rock band in Afghanistan, the group – formed…
Soz and Nauha and Singing for God
byIn this song Kabir evokes the image of our body, our self, being like the five-stringed musical instrument – the tambura. Made of the…
Bizarre Ancient Persia in Snoop Dogg's Video
byIranian singer Amitis Moghaddam – stage name Amitis – released a bizarre ancient Persian-themed music video on Monday featuring well-known American rapper Snoop Dogg….
Ajam Feels Like a Stranger
byA few years ago, when I was searching on the Internet for Iranian mahali (folk) music, I came across the music of a London-based…
Half And Half Hair Colors
byThat’s right, the days of agonizing over whether or not you should dress your tresses up in a single shade of pink or purple…
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
byJust imagine mixing Dracula wandering in London with the Middle Eastern vampire girl thatcovered with the Vail, hunting down the bad men. Then continue…
Tehran Based Musician Arash Akbari
byAs a young producer from Tehran, Arash Akbari has made his name releasing on Oído Records and on compilations with fellow experimental producers making…
The Surfer Girls Of Iran
byThe 28-year-old Irish surfer has spent several weeks in the past three years riding the waves in a remote region of what is –…
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
byBorn in the East End and the son of a taxi driver, Alexander McQueen was the quintessential bad boy made good. He had brains…
Leonard Nimoy’s Photography of Full Body Women
byThese photos of full-figured women were taken by the late Leonard Nimoy in 2007 to challenge entrenched concepts of beauty. They echo the work…
American Sniper and Its Ideological Contradictions
byFrom an ideological standpoint, it is too easy to damn Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper, but from a cinematic perspective, the film relies on skilfully…
“Snow” A Good Film by Mehdi Rahmani
by“Snow,” the new film by Mehdi Rhamani, is a gloomy film about a middle class family that, because of financial difficulties, is on the…
Milan Kundera’s New Novel in 13 Years
byMilan Kundera’s New novel The Feast of Insignificance is a “wryly comic yet deeply serious glance at the ultimate insignificance of life and politics, told…
Cartoon for Hottest Year Ever; 2014
byAll of these scientific centres and global climate watchers claim that 2014 was the warmest year ever Global Analysis – Annual 2014 http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/ 2014…
Oscar-nominated Leviathan
byLeviathan, the new film by Andrey Zvyagintsev, is about political corruption in northern Russia. But unlike many other political films, it is not a…
Master Böyükağa
byIn this video the two generations of Iranian classical music Böyükağa and young singer Omeed Mazhari collaborate and create a transcendental musical moment. Böyükağa,…
Iranian Band of Three Vagabonds "Velshodegan"
byVelshodegan plays Iranian traditional music, a band of the three Musketeers that act like Don Quixote. They play the traditional musical scales but instead of the poetry associated with the Iranian classic…
Street Ballet
byLittle Shao is what Paris based photographer, Thinh Souvannarath, likes to be called. He is a Ballet and Hip-Hop photographer, art director, and filmmaker. http://www.culturainquieta.com/en/fotografia/item/3290-ballet-on-the-street.html
Iranian Doors
byThe amount of beauty and art that resides in the Middle East is extraordinary. From natural beauties to Islamic Art, the Middle East is…