Iran
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Jason Novak Draws Monkeys for Esquire
Sending a monkey into space, as Iran will do later this month, is only one of many bad ideas involving monkeys and technology. Luckily, our very own Jason Novak has an illustrated essay in Esquire about some of the other things you shouldn’t…
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Iran’s Epic Poem, Now with Illustrations
You’ve heard of the Ramayana and the Epic of Gilgamesh, but have you heard of Shahnameh? It’s Iran’s epic mythical poem, and it’s “twice the length of The Iliad and The Odyssey combined.” Artist Hamid Rahmanian wanted to bring the seminal…
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Returning to the Land
This summer, I found myself in Iran in the midst of an escalating international conflict, admittedly not the most pragmatic of decisions. After a four-hour drive from the Imam Khomeini airport in Tehran, I arrive at my grandmother’s house on…
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The Colonel by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
Somewhere in an anonymous functionary’s desk drawer or a filing cabinet in a fluorescent-lit office or a cardboard box in a dusty basement sits the Persian-language manuscript of Mahmoud Dowlatabadi’s The Colonel. Whatever the Iranian government does with books that…
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A Life Defined By Circumstance: Maryam Keshavarz Explores Freedom In Tehran
In 1982, my parents packed a suitcase and paid a smuggler to help them escape from Tehran, Iran. The reason? Me.
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Iran’s Green Revolution, One Year later
Alexandra Sandels reports that security is tight in Tehran. Eskander Sedaghi discusses where the Green Revolution has to go next. Greg Scoblete asks how much would be different had the Green Revolution succeeded. James Miller argues that the Green Revolution…
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White Torture
“After I recanted my false confession, my main interrogator essentially told me he knew I was not a spy. My captors may have wanted to use my false confession to intimidate Iranians advocating better relations with the West. They may…
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The Storm of Life
In a series of violent encounters, Peter Nathaniel Malae’s debut novel asks, What are we to do with men?
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Morning Coffee
I’ve just got this hunch that things might be ok. Watching Shrek in Tehran. Hey, so, what happened to that tsunami? Related: The Chilean earthquake did however probably (possibly?) make the day shorter. Why the internet will never catch on. Gang…
