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Category Archives: Iran
Women’s History Month: Reading and Viewing
I felt overwhelmed when I thought about what I could write for Women’s History Month. Do I write about how the month became commemorated? About the women that made it (and the other, more shaded side of history) happen? About … Continue reading
Posted in History, Iran, Journalism, Literature, Philosophy, TV and Film
Tagged A Room of One's Own, Alison Bechdel, Aphra Behn, Azar Nafisi, Betty Friedan, Brave, Charlie's Angels, Circumstance, Fun Home, Germaine Greer, How to Make an American Quilt, Jane Austen, Kate Millet, Lumberjanes, Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis, Persuasion, Reading Lolita in Tehran, Sexual Politics, She's Beautiful When She's Angry, Simone de Beauvoir, Spice World, The Female Eunuch, The Feminine Mystique, The Hours, The Mandarins, The Rover, The Second Sex, Town Bloody Hall, Violette, Virginia Woolf, Women's History Month
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A Poem a Day: Blazing Persian Devotion
Today’s selection is from the Persian poet Sanai. Rumi acknowledged Sanai and Attar as his two primary inspirations, saying, “Attar is the soul and Sanai its two eyes, I came after Sanai and Attar.” (1) This poem is a ghazal, … Continue reading
Posted in Iran, Literature, National Poetry Month
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A Poem a Day: Forugh Farrokhzad
I first learned of Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad from the enthusiastic endorsement of Azar Nafisi, in Reading Lolita in Tehran. It took some searching, but I finally saw a copy of a book of her poetry at the Harvard Coop. … Continue reading
Posted in Iran, Literature, National Poetry Month
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A Poem a Day: Encounters with Persian Poetry
The first Persian poet I ever read was Farid ud-Din Attar. Today’s selection is an extract from his wonderful work, The Conference of the Birds, an epic tale about the search for the mythical Simorgh, the one holy bird who … Continue reading
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Iran Series: Marjane Satrapi, Hilarious Cartoonist
Yesterday I attended a Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro lecture at the Boston MFA, where I got to see one of my favorite artists, Marjane Satrapi, speak and wisecrack about her life and the cultural multiplicity of human experience. If … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Iran, Literature, TV and Film
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The Iran Series: A Separation (2011)
I was intrigued by this new release of Iranian cinema early this year, and after its Oscar win for Best Foreign Film, it couldn’t be long before I viewed A Separation (2011). The film kicks off with you in the … Continue reading
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The Iran Series: Subversive Cinema
At last, on December 13th, 2011, the Iranian film Circumstance (2011) came to Netflix. The Coolidge Corner Theatre had held a screening a few months prior which I missed, so I snapped up my Netflix DVD as soon as I … Continue reading
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Preview: The Iran Series
I’ve been considering writing a piece about my passion for the political travails, artistic movements, and day-to-day repressions that occur in the Islamic Republic of Iran. I realized quickly that even if I brutally summarized the little I know, I … Continue reading
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