Friday, July 4, 2008 
In her first children’s book, Grow, Watermelon, Grow, New York-based Iranian designer/illustrator Charlotte Noruzi uses both Western and Iranian themes to tell a story from her childhood. The resulting work is bright, cheerful drawings about a little girl who insists on growing her own watermelon.
Because much of the book relies on an elegant mix of […]
Filed under: ART, BOOKS, DESIGN, INTERVIEWS, INTERVIEWS WITH YOUNG IRANIANS
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Shahrnush Parsipur is arguably one of the most important Iranian writers working today. First published when she was just sixteen years old, much of her writing casts a spotlight on the lives of women, in a style that combines frank language with magical realism. Parsipur has been jailed under both the Shah’s regime and that […]
Filed under: BOOKS, CENSORSHIP, INTERVIEWS, WOMEN
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The photo blog Life Goes on in Tehran highlights ordinary Tehran life in an effort to dispel Western myths and poorly slanted media coverage about Iran. It has a very insider quality that makes you feel like you’re on your own Tehran visit. The man behind the site, 28-year-old Azad (last name withheld for reasons […]
Filed under: BLOGS, CULTURE, INTERNET, INTERVIEWS, INTERVIEWS WITH YOUNG IRANIANS, IRAN, PHOTOGRAPHY
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Maryam Kashani is an Iranian-Japanese-American filmmaker whose first documentary feature, Best in the West was released in 2006 and has been screening at festivals. The film tells the story of Kashani’s father and his Iranian friends who all ended up in San Francisco during the 1960s and 1970s, tying their narrative to the turbulent time […]
Filed under: ART, CULTURE, FILM, IMMIGRATION, INTERVIEWS, INTERVIEWS WITH YOUNG IRANIANS
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So how long have you been with the band?
Seventeen years, since the beginning.
Wow, you don’t look that old.
I’m eighteen years old.
So you’re all child prodigies. Why is the band’s name Kiosk?
This goes back to 17 years ago… we would get together and experiment with different musical ideas. Because of the restrictions in Iran, we couldn’t […]
Filed under: EVENTS, INTERVIEWS, MUSIC
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Porochista Khakpour’s Sons and Other Flammable Objects is the first great Iranian-American novel, breathless and overwhelmingly good. Its protagonist, Xerxes Adam, Iranian immigrant and son of Iranian immigrants Darius and Lala (nee Laleh) - whose relationship with his father is broken, who is lost in his vague notions of homeland - awkwardly and uncomfortably grows […]
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Nazy Kaviani is introducing me to everyone here - thanks, Nazy! Just chatted with Omid Memarian, who’s going to be making the introductions when this starts. He is a journalism grad student at Berkeley. Most of the stuff I’d read by him was very Iran-politics oriented so I sort of assumed that was what he’s […]
Filed under: BLOGS, COMMUNITY, CULTURE, INTERNET, INTERVIEWS, IRANIAN MEDIA, IRANIANS ON THE INTERNET CONFERENCE
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