• Lotfi Master of Persian Music

    Lotfi Master of Persian Music

                  Mohammadreza Lotfi (January 7, 1947 – May 2, 2014) spend all his life preserving and celebrating Persian classical music. He created numerous recordings with master such as, Mohammad Reza Shajarian, Shahram Nazeri, Hossein Alizadeh, and Parviz Meshkatian. Lotfi was one of the best contemporary masters of the Tar…

  • The Iron Sheik of America is an Iranian

    The professional wrestler and truly an American icon “Iron Sheik” who took advantage of the conflict between Iran and America in the past few decades and made a legendary status for himself is in fact an Iranian. In 2005, the Iron Sheik was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by his old rival, Sgt.…

  • Iranian Casablanca

    Iranian Casablanca

    The return of Amir’s ex girlfriend, Nazli, now married to a Deutsch citizen, makes things more complicated, stirring up long withheld emotions, desires and memories. A bridge, between old and new, the past and the future, the tradition and the contemporary, values and desires, staying and leaving, keeping and letting go. A bridge to cross…

  • Be Visible

    Part 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 it:

  • Queen Soraya Sees Spring Fashions (1955)

    Queen Soraya Sees Spring Fashions (1955)

    It 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 love changed and Princess Soraya took refuge in Paris when the royal marriage collapsed. Princess Soraya was famous for the sad eyes. She also was famous for being one of the most…

  • Pat Perry's Dreamlike Memories

    “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 I can go. Drawing is meditative in the sense that it’s part of my routine and I need it to stay sane.”, says Pat Perry, a Michigan based artist and illustrator,…

  • Women in Tehran's Streets

    Mohammad Roodgoli has all the essential tools for capturing street photos. Choice of the right lens,  shutter speeds, angels, ability to recognize the natural Mise en Scene would create a superb picture when you are ready and expose yourself to chance.

  • Inside an American Brothel

    Marc McAndrews, a photographer from New York, in his project called “Nevada Rose: Inside the American BrothelL” tries to portray the ordinary life in Nevada brothels. During the five years he spent on this project, McAndrews tried to give a fair portrayal of such places. “Everybody knows what goes on in the brothels.” McAndrews explains:”…

  • Is Capitalism Failed the World

    Is Capitalism Failed the World

    Thomas 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 only does capitalist growth not reduce inequality; it increases it. Here are some of the outline summery of Jeff Faux’s critical review  in The Nation magazine: Thomas Piketty just tossed an…

  • Iranian Man

  • Sormeh, a Persian Folk Music Band

    Sormeh, a Persian Folk Music Band

    Golnar Shahyar’s voice, the lead vocalist for the Sormeh Band, is the remedy for a rainy Sunday afternoon, when a cup of coffee and a cigarette is not enough to take you away from it all… Here I am. Powerless, left without my love’s caressing gaze… Left in longing of my lover’s embrace… No fire…

  • Charlie Chaplin, monster

    By 1915, says Ackroyd, Chaplin was ‘the most famous man in the world’. Lenin said that ‘Chaplin is the only man in the world I want to meet.’ He stayed with Churchill at Chartwell. At Nancy Astor’s house he met Shaw and Keynes. Barrie and H.G. Wells were fans. Debussy told him, ‘You are instinctively…

  • the Craziness of Being a Woman

    Laila Kordbacheh is a woman whose poetry unlocks the innermost fragile layers of being a woman. It is soft, yet stubborn. It is bold, yet beautiful. It is frank yet tactful. She takes her audience through a journey of discovery, of self doubt, at times, the most unattainable feelings filling the heart of a woman.…

  • The New Yorker's Cartoonist

    Every week more than 1000 cartoons and caricatures are sent to The New Yorker, out of which, only 17 are chosen to be featured In each issue. Tom Cheney is a staff cartoonist with The New Yorker, and his works have appeared in over 500 publications in the US and around the world.

  • When Dance Prohibited in Iran

    One of our readers told us about this amature video from Iran. The owner of a small corner store watches a band of street performers passing by while playing a folk tune. The store owner knows that dancing in Iran is prohibited. It is pretty obvious that he is not able to control the beautiful…

  • Iranian Men

  • Deconstructing Woody

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/10196567/Woody-Allens-30-best-one-liners.html

  • Me and My Four Husbands

    Me and My Four Husbands

    The Islamis Polygamy law, allowing men to acquire four wives at the same time as long as each is treated equally as others, has been the topic of many debates around the women’s rights movements in Islamic countries. And throughout Islamic women’s rights movement history, its opponents have taken drastic measures to shed light on…

  • Tehran – Men in the Subway

  • The Conflict Between Competition and Leisure

    In 1930 the economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that increases in productivity due to technological progress would lead within a century to most people enjoying much more leisure. He believed that by 2030 the average working week would be around fifteen hours. Eighty-four years later, it doesn’t look like this prediction will come true. Most…

  • Iranian Couples

  • Unfit Iranian Men and a Movie Called NOTHING

    Unfit Iranian Men and a Movie Called NOTHING

    In his film “Nothing,” Abdolreza Kahani expresses his disappointment in Iranian men in an angry tone. That is why he gives the final choice and decision to one of the film’s female characters. In the film’s last scene, we see that Efat, the family’s mother, is wearing her running shoes, an act that underscores her…

  • Peddler in the Rain

  • The Ugly Truth

    Our own culture appears to be no less afraid of ugliness than Greek culture, even if surgical rather than divine intervention is now the order of the day. Parents still want their children to avoid ugliness, and many are willing to lend a helping hand: rare is the gift of rhinoplasty, implants or liposuction, but…

  • Waiting to Be Charged _ Daily Iran's Photo

       

  • َAmerican Girl in Iran

    25 years old Silvia is from Worcester, MA USA, but she likes to tell people I’m from Norway. After spending the past three and a half years in Asia, she is used to being referred to as “blonde girl.” “I’m not even sure what it was about Tehran, but looking around at the people, the…

  • Nick Cave, Foreplay in a Song

    «Henry Lee» is a song from the album “Murder Ballads”, by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. The song is about a crime of passion and tells the story of a woman who kills a man because he did not sleep with her or love her. It is a duet with PJ Harvey, a British…

  • Cooking for Oneself

    Its 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 my favorite restaurant and treat mmyself to my most favorite, smoked salmon and rice dish. Some nights I stop at the nearest fast food drive in and order the greasy hamburger!…

  • New York’s Underground

    New York’s Underground

    Originally from Cleveland, Tod Seelie, the American Photographer, at times elevates mere weirdness to a more striking realm of visual intrigue, through his photographic genius. Strange, vivid, baffling and relentlessly unexplained, his images leave their viewers transfixed. His work has appeared in publications such as The NY Times, New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, Spin, Vice,…

  • Portrait of the Underdog

    They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and each photo captured by  the photographer from Israel, Ziv Ish, speaks volumes of pain, sorrow, and the raw feeling of lonely hopefulness. Each photo captures not only the fringes of society, but also the footprints of survival, of strong emotional chaos, and the true meaning…

  • Bob Dylan and Iranian lovers

    There 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 play ‘ The Tempest’. It is not my cup of tea to  contemplate on those kinds of rumor. One of the first songs in that album ‘Duquesne Whistle’ is a big…

  • Iranian New Wave Cinema – Fat Shaker

    The Fat Shaker, a movie written, produced and directed by Mohammad Shirvani, literally does what its title suggests: it shakes. Shirani’s intentional use of a digital handheld, and very shaky, camera, takes us on a roller coaster of highs and lows surrounding a morbidly obese father, Levon Haftvan, and his deaf, mute, son’s relationship. When…

  • Gibberish English Rock Song

    Gibberish English Rock Song

    This song, Prisecolinensinenciousol, a parody by Adriano Celentano is sung entirely in gibberish designed to sound like American English. Celentano’s intention with the song was to explore communications barriers. «Ever since I started singing, I was very influenced by American music and everything Americans did. So at a certain point, because I like American slang…

  • Photo Gallery – Four Generations of Iranian Females in One House

    Photo Gallery – Four Generations of Iranian Females in One House

     We are proud to present a new photo gallery with  almost similar ambiance and tone by freelance painter & illustrator Parastou Ahadi. She is very conscious to avoid any slogan or obvious message mainly because the subject of the project has tendency to move toward general themes  and issues that are usually expressed by feminism.  In…

  • Bitter Ending, an Iranian Short Story

    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 and demographic behavior has resulted in nothing but uncertainty. To make it more interesting, add the short story “Bitter Ending”  jam-packed with skepticism by Vahid Sharifian, the acclaimed Iranian conceptual Artist.…

  • Roger Waters supports  Boycott on Israel

    Roger Waters supports Boycott on Israel

    After visiting Israel in 2005 and the West Bank the following year, I was deeply moved and concerned by what I saw, and determined to add my voice to those searching for an equitable and lawful solution to the problem – for both Palestinians and Jews. Given my upbringing, I really had no choice. In…

  • Saudi Arabia's King of YouTube

    Alaa 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 cover of Lorde’s “Royals,” the floor-to-ceiling cardboard boxes from his interpretation of Rihanna’s “Stay,” and the patterned mattresses from the makeshift sound room where he has paid tribute to Arab singers…

  • Immigrants' Cartoonist

    The Albanian painter, illustrator and cartoonist Agim Sulaj, first started working in the political and satirical magazine “Hosteni”, producing illustrations and caricatures. At the same time, he was developing the skill of hyperrealistic painting. Agim Sulaj presented his artworks at his first individual exhibition in the National Gallery in Tirana in 1986. In 1994 he…

  • َAlpha and Beta Men

    Arnold Schwarzenegger used to hold the record for having arms that measured the exact same size, and from an athlete to an actor.  Arnold’s body has been the subject of envy among many men. Is it his muscles those envious eyes are looking at, or simply the sex appeal his body had among women, that…

  • History of Drinking Wine in Iran

    History of Drinking Wine in Iran

      From archaeological excavations that suggest northwest Iran was one of the earliest places where wine was produced — more than 6,000 years ago — to the tale of medieval French knights bringing grapes from the city of Shiraz, where the great Persian poet Hafez lived and wrote about his love of drink, there are…