Sydney Martin
The Iran 1400 Project’s Spotlighting an Author event with Dr. Ali Mirsepassi about his book The Discovery of Iran: Taghi Arani, a Radical Cosmopolitan piqued my interest in Arani.
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Sydney Martin
Cinema Before the Islamic Revolution In 1900, only five years after the first-ever screening of a cinematographic film, Mozaffar al-Din Shah Qajar viewed scenes filmed with a cinématographe, the french motion picture camera, during his first trip to Europe.
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Sydney Martin
Introduction In 651 C.E., the Sasanian Empire (224-651 CE) toppled, losing control of Iran to the Arabs. This event, commonly referred to as the Arab conquest, introduced a new culture, language, and religion to Persia.
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Mehdi Rezania
I am grateful to Professor Rob Simms who read the first draft of this essay and gave me invaluable suggestions.
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Christian Petrillo
Editor’s introduction: The encounter with modernity is a major theme in Iran‘s story during the past hundred years. During this period, perhaps no other poet in modern Iran symbolizes the struggle with modernity more than Forugh Farrokhzad, who, along with her poetry, is the subject of the following essay.
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Rasool Nafisi
Introduction The question of development of the non-industrial world, often called pejoratively “the third world,” used to be a major theme in the academic as well as political world throughout the cold war era.
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