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…
Centuries before invisible men, time travel, flying machines and journeys to other planets and before the Western Imagination, there was the Abbasid caliphs that…
He is distracted and depressed and hardly focused. He is constantly complaining, skipping on office work and missing deadlines. And to top it all…
The door bell rang and the boy ran to the door monitor and picked up the phone with no hesitation. Right before, he…
It was midday, almost noon. I was at the office and dad called, wondering about my plans for lunch. And I talked about not…
Allan 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….
Milan 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…
Launched with the summer ’04 award-winning best seller Brooklyn Noir, Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies. Each book is comprised of…
Beautiful face That like a daisy opens its petals to the sun So do you Open your face to me as I turn the…
When our plane landed, no one from the family had come to the airport to greet us. I thought maybe because I hadn’t told…
Due to my work in beverage industry, I travel to the city of Mashhad, Khorasan Province, quite often, once a week at times. Mashhad…
Simin Behbahani’s poems paint one of the most nuanced narratives of modern Iranian society. Her poems offer apertures into the daily life of Iranians,…
Published as an e-book, Incubus, ( بختك-“Bakhtak“in Farsi) is a collection of fifty seven horror, at times blunt, stories written in Farsi by different…
Ramita Navai is a British-Iranian writer and journalist. She works as a reporter for Channel 4’s foreign affairs series Unreported World. Her investigative…
Laila Kordbacheh is a woman whose poetry unlocks the innermost fragile layers of being a woman. It is soft, yet stubborn. It is bold,…
Nobody can even think of ignoring the three decades of social, political and psychological turbulence in Iranian society. The combination of Iran’s social mobility…
Reza Ghassemi has written and stages many plays first of which was at the age of eighteen. Before the Islamic revolution his plays won…
In his own words, Hossain Rad’s poetry is “the struggles of a bare man in the mirror, with his emotions and sensitivities, so raw,…
Philip Roth‘s 1979 classic, The Ghost Writer, will be spotlighted at Stanford at a February 25 “Another Look” book club event (see below here)….
Veronica Roth (born August 19, 1988) is an American author known for her debut New York times best selling novels Divergent and Insurgent. Her…