Pars Arts

Esha Momeni, Iranian-American Activist

MobLogic covers the arrest of Iranian-American women’s rights activist Esha Momeni (click her name for ways to help her). She was working on her graduate thesis in Iran and got pulled over and taken to prison when she was driving alone in Tehran.

Re-Emerge: New Work by Khosro Berahmandi

Iranian artist Khosro Berahmandi writes to let us know he will be showing new drawings and paintings at Montreal’s MEKIC gallery in an exhibition entitled “Re-Emerge.” From MEKIC, here’s more about the work:

In this exhibition, Khosro once again ventures into extremely refined improvisations to offer us his reading of re-emergence.  He invites us to explore the unity of light, dark, and the eternal renewal of creation.  The artist uses the Persian word taro-poud, “The fund”, to refer to the inseparability of life and death, two threads that weave the story of our universe.

The exhibit will be on display until November 16.

(Previously on Pars Arts: Khosro Berahmandi’s “Argile étincelante” Show)

Hooman Majd on The Daily Show

Journalist and author Hooman Majd on The Daily Show, discussing nuclear enrichment, Iranian sentiments towards the U.S., and etc. with Jon Stewart. His book is The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran.