
Appetite For Destruction
The legs of the acrylic wooden console table that Ramin Haerizadeh has stuck to the canvas of We Choose To Go To The Moon still bear the price

The legs of the acrylic wooden console table that Ramin Haerizadeh has stuck to the canvas of We Choose To Go To The Moon still bear the price

Nearly thirty years later, Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s heavily censored film is finding new audiences A year after Ayatollah Khomeini’s death in 1989, and in the wake of

‘I am the descendant of four civilisations. In my self-portrait, the hand is Persian, the dress is Byzantine, the face is Cretan, and the eyes

Ah, 1979: the year the Shah said ‘adios’ to the land of the Lion and Sun; the year Ayatollah Khomeini returned from exile in Fgghhhance

It was one of those afternoons I didn’t ever want to end. All I’d brought with me were a pair of bright blue jeans and

‘Cyrus is the Father, and Googoosh the Daughter, if there’s ever been one’ Familiar stranger, I love thee; To the land of tales, take me

A few months back in January, a friend of mine – a classical Iranian musician – sent me a link to a song, What Does All this Have

Shirin Neshat at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. When you catch the right wavelength that communicates the nuances of a vast and varied culture

Kicking out the jams, kranking up the volume: Sulyman Qardash and the boys of Kabul Dreams Amidst the dust and splendour, the city glows. Lost in

TWO ARTISTS FROM GAZA WHO FOUND AND REDISCOVERED EACH OTHER THROUGH THEIR ART An exhibition uniting the works of two artists who grew up together