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All articles filed in Iran

personal essaysJanuary 21, 2020February 26, 2020

Free Music

Iranian musician Mehdi Rajabian writes on his time in Evin Prison, and music as a form of resistance in the Middle East.

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personal essaysDecember 27, 2019February 26, 2020

Translating Ulysses for Iran

Iranian-Canadian novelist and translator Akram Pedramnia writes on translating James Joyce into Persian, evading the censors, and imperial co-option of resistance.

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nature and its absenceAugust 23, 2018July 30, 2019

Nature bubbling out: a conversation with Mahvash Sabet

I never consciously make a decision about what to say in a poem: the poem itself says itself. So the poem happens. It doesn’t happen because I have decided that it should happen. It wasn’t a conscious decision to write about nature. The nature just bubbled out.

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UncategorizedJanuary 8, 2015

Why I write what I write?

Farnoosh Moshiri details the tragic betrayal of the revolution in Iran

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archiveNovember 18, 2013

PEN Atlas Q&A: Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, winner of the Jan Michalski Prize 2013

Following his recent award of the 2013 Jan Michalski Prize, Mahmoud Dowlatabadi answers questions from Tasja Dorkofikis for PEN Atlas, charting the works, influences and world-view of Iran’s most important living writer

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archiveNovember 18, 2013

PEN Atlas Q&A: Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, winner of the Jan Michalski Prize 2013

Following his recent award of the 2013 Jan Michalski Prize, Mahmoud Dowlatabadi answers questions from Tasja Dorkofikis for PEN Atlas, charting the works, influences and world-view of Iran’s most important living writer

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archiveNovember 14, 2013

On Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, winner of the Jan Michalski Prize

Sahar Delijani charts the career of Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, winner of the 2013 Jan Michalski Prize, and how his work has forged the conscience of his nation. Sahar’s PEN Atlas piece precedes an exclusive Q&A with Mahmoud Dowlatabadi tomorrow

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