Wednesday, August 20, 2008 
Nahid Rachlin is the author of several works of fiction. Her memoir, Persian Girls, was published last year. We sent her some questions about the book and about writing. Here’s what she had to say.
For readers that haven’t yet read the book, what’s it about?
PERSIAN GIRLS extends from the time of the late Shah to […]
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Ali Seradge is a 28-year-old artist living in Oklahoma City. He has a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Oklahoma and a Masters of Public Health.
His artwork has been published in various journals, and hung multiple times in OVAC’s 12 x 12, LiT lounge in OKC, as well as other venues.
A selection […]
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We wrote a post about Iranian-American musician Haale after seeing her play live a few weeks ago, and we’re happy to follow that up with a podcast we recorded last week (see below). She released two EPs last month, which you can purchase on her website, haale.com, or via iTunes. Enjoy:
Pars Arts podcast with Haale(Please […]
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Despite his place as one of the founders of socially-conscious and politically subversive Iranian New Wave cinema, Bahman Farmanara is noted as much for the films he didn’t make as for those he did. In fact, until he made the award-winning 2000 film Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine (Booye Kafoor, Atre Yas) Farmanara hadn’t […]
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We’re pleased to present our first post in the Interviews with Young Iranians Series on parsarts.com. In this series, we’ll be talking to young Iranians to watch - they’re doing cool things in their respective fields, and getting noticed for them. One of these is up-and-coming actor Omid Abtahi, who has been a cast member […]
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