by Sam Razi | Mar 14, 2010 | Arts and Culture, Featured, General
On Wednesday, Iranians will celebrate the ancient fire festival of Chahar Shanbe Soori. Dating back to the time of the Zoroastrian’s (before Islam came to Iran) people set fires and jump of them at the start of the new year in an act of spiritual cleansing. Here...
by Sam Razi | Mar 11, 2010 | Arts and Culture, Featured, General
(A Street Journalist) | March 8, 2010 by Setareh Sabety To mark international women’s day I decided I should write about three Iranian women whom I came to know well when living in Iran just before Ahmadinejad’s first term. The three of them worked for me as...
by Sam Razi | Mar 10, 2010 | Arts and Culture, Featured, General, Must Read, Opinion
(The Pedestrian Blog) | March 10, 2010 The Pedestrian is an excellent blog providing insightful pieces on Iranian culture, politics and life. Highly recommended by Iran News Now. Emad Bahavar [1979] is a political activist, writer and the head of “Supporters of...
by Sam Razi | Mar 9, 2010 | Arts and Culture, Featured, General
(Tehran Bureau) | March 8, 2010 Cartoons depicting Iranian women from 1900 to 1917 View more interesting cartoons depicting Iranian women at Tehran...
by Sam Razi | Mar 9, 2010 | Arts and Culture, Featured, General
(The Guardian, UK) | March 7, 2010 By Lizzy Davies Actress Golshifteh Farahani, exiled in Paris, reveals the pressures on Iran’s artistic community after anti-government film-maker is arrested Golshifteh Farahani knows how dangerous it is now to be an artist in...
