Writers the world over have backed a call for a cultural boycott of Israel, similar to that imposed on South Africa during ...

Mohammad Rasoulof's provocative film has been banned in Iran, but Germany has submitted it for Oscar consideration ...

Iranian-Canadian curator Elham Puriya Mehr was in Derry recently conducting research with local people for her ‘Coffeehouses ...

This is a matter of saving the culture of Afghanistan,” Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf said to a parliamentary committee ...

Mohammad Rasoulof’s powerful drama about the authoritarian Iranian government breaks a fourth wall, with consequences.

Marateb held a BA in Persian literature and in theology as well as an honorary doctorate in Iranian music. He wrote more than ...

Mario Cuomo famously observed that you campaign in poetry but govern in prose. There is no reason to suppose the incoming ...