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…
Literature
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…
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…
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….
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…
Tehran Noir – Collection of Stories
byLaunched 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…
No More Clichés – A Poem by Octavio Paz
byBeautiful face That like a daisy opens its petals to the sun So do you Open your face to me as I turn the…
Men Without Father
byWhen our plane landed, no one from the family had come to the airport to greet us. I thought maybe because I hadn’t told…
In Khorasan – Iran,Taxi Drivers Are Poets Too
byDue to my work in beverage industry, I travel to the city of Mashhad, Khorasan Province, quite often, once a week at times. Mashhad…
When Ancient Eve is In love
bySimin Behbahani’s poems paint one of the most nuanced narratives of modern Iranian society. Her poems offer apertures into the daily life of Iranians,…
Anthology of Short Story by Iranian Diaspora
byPublished 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…
Tehran, City of Lies
byRamita Navai is a British-Iranian writer and journalist. She works as a reporter for Channel 4’s foreign affairs series Unreported World. Her investigative…
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,…
Bitter Ending, an Iranian Short Story
byNobody 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, "The Spell Chanted by Lambs"
byReza Ghassemi has written and stages many plays first of which was at the age of eighteen. Before the Islamic revolution his plays won…
Man in the Mirror
byIn 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: The novelist’s obsession is with language
byPhilip Roth‘s 1979 classic, The Ghost Writer, will be spotlighted at Stanford at a February 25 “Another Look” book club event (see below here)….
Dystopian Trilogy for Teens
byVeronica Roth (born August 19, 1988) is an American author known for her debut New York times best selling novels Divergent and Insurgent. Her…