‘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
All posts tagged “persian”
Freak Out
Necla Rüzgar looks at the striking similarities between the vibrant world of Persian and Turkish miniatures and Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin’s idea of the carnival
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
Tales Within Tales
Sabrina Guerrieri on the postmodernism of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1974 classic, The Flower of the Thousand and One Nights and questions of originality in art
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
Sex, Drugs, and Gol-o-Bolbol
Before David Bowie, ZZ Top, the Sex Pistols, and Johnny Thunders, there were the Qajars. Joobin Bekhrad looks at the dynasty’s influence on Iranian artists, designers, and musicians today
Whirl’d Music
Songlines’ Editor-in-Chief, Simon Broughton, on the sights and sounds of the 11th edition of the Mystic Music Festival in Konya, Turkey, held in honour of Rumi