A Simple but Fantastic Illusion
byYou can not believe your eyes after looking at this picture that simply shows a brick wall. A wall that has crack in it…
You can not believe your eyes after looking at this picture that simply shows a brick wall. A wall that has crack in it…
A 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…
Directer, choreographer , dancer and filmmaker Jo Roy made a playful video based on a poem by British actor and comedian Stephen Fry…
Scientists have discovered a powerful new strain of fact-resistant humans who are threatening the ability of Earth to sustain life, a sobering new study…
Rob 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….
You might not think there’d be much overlap between neuroscience and philosophy, but that’s not what philosopher Alva Noë sees. Where philosophers have long…
The religious implications of secularism are often misconstrued, too. Secularisation did not mean godlessness; for the most part, early modern Europeans were profoundly Christian….
“Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future.” ― George Orwell, 1984 These days every…
Kristina Palten was wondering what she can do to have an impact on prejudiced world that she encounters. She decided to run alone across Iran….
Born 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…
Sometimes you have no idea how a place in the middle of your way to a destination can become your cozy spot. You would…
He is distracted and depressed and hardly focused. He is constantly complaining, skipping on office work and missing deadlines. And to top it all…
It was all we had on our minds: to hit on girls when they least expected it. We were teenage boys in junior high;…
I had always had a passion for dancing. However, I used to turn into a tough hard body as soon as I started to…
I 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…
The door bell rang and the boy ran to the door monitor and picked up the phone with no hesitation. Right before, he…
I was only six when me and my mother walked through the mountains for the first time, to get to our ancestral village in…
To best understand the roots of Iranian cinema, one must perhaps travel back to the early 20th century, when the Qajar monarch Mozaffareddin Shah…
It was midday, almost noon. I was at the office and dad called, wondering about my plans for lunch. And I talked about not…
Men across the country and from a broad range of backgrounds posed for Irish photographer Owen McCann who was travelling in Iran. ‘There was…
According to the philosophers of Ancient Greece, the summit of achievement was to have followed the injunction to ‘know yourself.’ While we all have…
On the Internet, everyone is a critic — a Yelp-fueled takedown artist, an Amazon scholar, a cheerleader empowered by social media to Like and…
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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….
It seems that the jewellery design industry is booming in Iran. In the last 10 years there has been a new revival for this…
A philosopher / neuroscientist and a political scientist, wrote a book on how we as a consumer follow up the superficial trends that corporations make for…
Lucas Levitan, a Brazilian illustrator and multimedia artist, based in London with his known series that he calls “Photo Invasion,” he creates the most…
Crying 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…
This is the band that we introduced in our Persian magazine and we claimed that they got very close to adapting our beloved poet…
A Toronto couple cancelled plans for a big, expensive wedding and asked guests at their small city hall ceremony to donate money in lieu…
On a recent Saturday, President Obama and his family went to a local independent bookstore, Politics and Prose, and purchased 21 books. Here are…
On April 20, 1972, Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke took his first steps on the Moon. He was 36 at the time and is…
This loss of high culture is not an American phenomenon alone. English intellectual and artistic life has fallen off greatly since the generation of…
“Ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. They have craved an understanding of…
In 1977, a University of Oxford statistician named Richard Peto pointed out a simple yet puzzling biological fact: We humans should have a lot…
Most of human history is prehistory. Of the 200,000 or more years that humans have spent on Earth, only a tiny fraction have been…
The concept that Mr Vsauce ( one of the most popular YouTube channel) explained in this 21 minutes video, is mind boggling. He start…
It’s easy to feel like we aren’t good enough. We all judge ourselves too harshly, and reflect on our failures too critically. In an…
Seven months ago, I sat down at the small table in the kitchen of my 1960s apartment, nestled on the top floor of a…