When he’s not busy living it up in Monaco and the French Riviera, artist Sassan Behnam Bakhtiar fights to change notions about and celebrate the beauty of his beloved Iran
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Hajji Baba of New York City
‘Parviz Khatibi loved his country enough to tell it the truth’ - Leila Jarman and Caitlin Carlson reflect on the trials and triumphs of an Iranian entertainment icon
Routes of Modernism
Aria Fani on the life and accomplishments of leading Iranian literary scholar Karim Emami (1930 - 2005), and a new ‘illuminating’ English-language collection of his writings
Portrait of a Nation
From the palaces of Nasereddin Shah-e Qajar to the battlegrounds of the Iran-Iraq War, Sanaz Jamloo examines the development of photography in Iran and the social upheavals associated with it
The King
Dreams, decrepitude, and despotism - Amir-Hussein Radjy examines Iranian-Dutch writer Kader Abdolah’s latest novel about the legendary Iranian monarch Nasereddin Shah
Ajammin’
Sheema Ahanin talks to the boys of London-based Ajam about their contemporary take on Iranian folk music, and how they’re making it ‘cool’ again
Then and Now
A look at the works on display in the first part of an exhibition of contemporary photography from the Middle East and North Africa at LACMA
Room Full of Mirrors
With her work being celebrated in a 40-year museum retrospective in Portugal, Nicola Baird looks at the life and legacy of Iran’s Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian
Iraqi Odyssey
‘Straddling a telling of his family’s history and that of Iraq from Ottoman times to the present, Samir’s aptly named film is nothing short of epic‘
Persian Letters
Kevin Schwartz looks at the allure of Persian nasta’liq calligraphy in the ateliers and courts of the Persianate world, as well as to a new generation of Iranian artists