Wednesday, August 20, 2008 
A soldier serving in Iraq right now sent this photo of the Iran-Iraq border (click on the image for a larger version). We can’t say who he is or where exactly this photo was taken, but he says this field is in a river valley in eastern Iraq; the river’s not pictured but apparently it […]
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Esther and Keivan, the once-pseudonymous couple behind the blog View from Iran, are now living outside Iran and have just revealed their offline identities. Esther is Tori Egherman and Keivan is Kamran Ashtary; together they’ve published a book of photos and essays, Iran: View from Here, which can be previewed on their site. It looks […]
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Image: Image of Imagination 5, by Bahman Jalali
International Arts & Artists (IA&A) has funded a traveling exhibit of Iranian photography that started making the rounds in late 2005 and looks like it will continue on through 2008 or 2009. Co-curated by Gary Hallman of the University of Minnesota and Hamid Severi of the Tehran Museum […]
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Photos and Video by Armaghan Saremi
The 13th day of Norooz, aka Sizdeh Bedar, marks the end of Persian New Year celebrations. You’re supposed to get out of the house for good luck, and being that this year was the first that I wasn’t with the fam, I took myself to Jafar Panahi’s Offside (review to […]
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Photo: Sina Araghi
Like most young people in New York who don’t have trust funds and aren’t investment bankers, I live in an insanely small room in an apartment I share with a roommate that I found on the Internet. We have a tiny courtyard, but I’m not even on the lease so starting a bonfire […]
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