| Articles
Previous
Issue | Home | Next
Issue
 Hedayat Va Jahaanbini-e
Tragic
by: Dr. Abbas Milani (Persian)(Click
to read)
Zanaan-e
Naami-e Adabiat-e Iran
by: Nosratollah Nooh (Persian)(Click
to read)
The End of Remembrance
by: Reza Jula'i
Translated from the Persian
by: Farzin Yazdanfar
It was raining. Rain, mixed with snow, was coming down all evening. Under the dim streetlight hanging from a wooden pole, I could see the small bubbles on the pavement. A carriage passed me, its hood up. I could hear the sound of the horses' hooves. Once again, it was Lalehzar Street in the late hours of a Saturday night in
winter.
(Full Text)
Tales of Subversion
-Women Challenging
Fundamentalism in the Islamic Republic of Iran
by: Dr. Azar Nafisi
I will begin with a tale. Its plot centeers on a
woman and poet known as Tahereh. Tahereh was not her real name; it
was the title bestowed on her by Bab, a religious leader and the precursor
of the Baha'i faith in Iran. It means "the pure."
Tahereh was born in Qazvin, Iran, in 1814, to a well-known and influential
clerical family. (Full Text)
Yaad-e Hoghoogh-e Taarikhi Ra Negaah Daarim
by: Houshang Tale'e (Persian)
(Click to read)
Yaldaa,
the Iranian Christmas!
by: Dr. Esmail Nooriala
Fire,
in Persian Mythology
by: Farideh Pourabdollah (persian)
(Click to
read)
The Cypress of Zoroaster
by: Parviz Tanavoli
From: Tavoos, Iranian Art Quarterly, published in Iran.
Among
the symbols which the Iranians hold dear, none is as popular as the
cypress tree. Innumerable
qualities are attributed to this tree and its form. (Full
Text)
Joft
by: Sadaf Kiani
(Persian)(Click to read)
Nothing
A Literary Piece
by: Mimi
That night I saw
“Nothing’ sitting on his yellow winged bloody mouth horse of ego.
His beady eyes were shining with a sense of nefarious revenge,
having it all under perspective of his eyes of snake, impatient to see
the woman’s defeat. He
was tall but he looked like a dwarf. (Full
Text)
Masterpieces of the World
Wuthering Heights
by: Emilie Bronte
Excerpt and Translation by: Shirin Tabibzadeh(Click to read)
|
