Be Visible
byPart of Western culture’s success and it’s ability to be heard and seen is coming from accenting on the presentation. As Woody Allen put…
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…
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…
Iranian Men
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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…
Iranian New Wave Cinema – Fat Shaker
byThe Fat Shaker, a movie written, produced and directed by Mohammad Shirvani, literally does what its title suggests: it shakes. Shirani’s intentional use of…
Gibberish English Rock Song
byThis song, Prisecolinensinenciousol, a parody by Adriano Celentano is sung entirely in gibberish designed to sound like American English. Celentano’s intention with the song…
Photo Gallery – Four Generations of Iranian Females in One House
byWe are proud to present a new photo gallery with almost similar ambiance and tone by freelance painter & illustrator Parastou Ahadi. She is very…
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…
Roger Waters supports Boycott on Israel
byAfter visiting Israel in 2005 and the West Bank the following year, I was deeply moved and concerned by what I saw, and determined…
Saudi Arabia's King of YouTube
byAlaa Wardi’s wiggling eyebrows and bushy hair are as recognizable as the madcap backdrops to his YouTube videos: the Technicolor Post-it wall from his…
Immigrants' Cartoonist
byThe Albanian painter, illustrator and cartoonist Agim Sulaj, first started working in the political and satirical magazine “Hosteni”, producing illustrations and caricatures. At the…
َAlpha and Beta Men
byArnold Schwarzenegger used to hold the record for having arms that measured the exact same size, and from an athlete to an actor. Arnold’s…
History of Drinking Wine in Iran
byFrom archaeological excavations that suggest northwest Iran was one of the earliest places where wine was produced — more than 6,000 years ago…
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,…
Why We Find Some Languages More Beautiful Than Others.
byDon’t judgments about a language’s beauty or ugliness generally depend on our personal experiences with people who speak it, and the associations it evokes?…