Aria Fani is an assistant professor of Persian and Iranian studies at the University of Washington, where he co-convenes the Translation Studies Hub. His first book, Reading across Borders: Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism (University of Texas Press, 2024), was translated into…
Akbar Fallahzadeh earned his bachelor’s degree in Dramatic Literature from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Tehran and received his PhD in Modern German Literature and Media Studies from the University of Marburg, Germany. His first book was a translation of the…
Keyan Emami, a Juno-nominated composer, is celebrated for his contemporary works inspired by Persian literature and various musical forms. Renowned for his orchestral, vocal, and piano compositions, his music has garnered international recognition, acclaimed as “eloquent and poignant” and “dark and moving.”…
Sanaz Eghtesadinia is an Iranian writer and critic, born in Tir 1360 (July 1981). After graduating in journalism from Allameh Tabataba’i University, she began her professional career in 1999 with Gozaresh-e Film magazine and soon became one of the active figures in Iran’s cultural…
Hadi Ebrahimi Rudbarki, born in 1954 in Rasht, is a poet, writer, and editor-in-chief of Shahrgon Online, a journal dedicated to the Iranian cultural diaspora in Vancouver, Canada. Ebrahimi’s literary and artistic activities began with the publication of the periodical Forough in Lahijan in…
Hushang Dowlatabadi is a retired physician and active author with an enduring interest in human and animal behaviour. This is his seventh novel, all in Persian. He has also translated Conrad Lorenz’s “On Aggression” into Farsi. He lives and works in Tehran, Iran.
Hadi Dowlatabadi is a retired physicist who focuses on uncertainties in science and labile social norms. He employs this perspective in trying to improve policies in environmental protection and public health. He lives and works in Vancouver, Canada.
Shahin Borhanzehi is a writer, anthropologist, interpreter, and model based in the United Kingdom. She was born in September 1968 (Shahrivar 1347 in the Iranian calendar) in Iranian Balochestan. She holds a PhD in Anthropology and has studied intercultural and international communications. Alongside…
Amir Hossein Bakhtiari, born in 1976, holds a Master’s degree in Architecture and is a fiction writer based in Toronto. His interest in writing began during his teenage years, nurtured by the encouragement of literature teachers. Before immigrating, he participated in literary…
narrated by Mehr Khansalar Behrooz Badakhshan was born in the spring of 1964, and before he could entrust his manuscripts to publication, he passed away in the spring of 2021. Contrary to the complexity of his creative mind, the story of his…
Abbas Amanat is a distinguished historian of Iran and the broader Persianate world, recognized for his decades-long academic contributions as William Graham Sumner Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University. A graduate of Alborz High School and Tehran University, Amanat received his PhD…
Shahriar Alvandi (born 1974 in Tuyserkan, Iran) is an Iranian writer, poet, and journalist, and a graduate of Dramatic Literature from the University of Art in Tehran. His writing draws on lived memory, childhood experience, and the emotional geography of place, offering…
Reza Allamehzadeh (born 1943) is an Iranian filmmaker, writer, and journalist whose career spans more than six decades across cinema, literature, and cultural activism. A former member of the Iranian Film Artists’ Syndicate and the Progressive Filmmakers Association, he played an active role…
Mansour Alimoradi is a Persian-language poet from Roudbar. Alimoradi undertook an ethnological effort to record and translate the oral tradition of Roudbar into Persian. This effort is part of his wider contributions to the study of Roudbar’s poetry, folk culture, and costumes.
Javad Alavi served as the editor of the Short Story series in Tehran from 1999 to 2006. This occasional publication featured short stories, introduced young writers, and included articles on literary research, analyzing the structural aspects of storytelling and narrative literature in…
Parisa Akbari Shahraki was born in 1979 in Tehran. She is a member of the Iranian Illustrators Association and works as an illustrator of children’s and young adult books. Her interest in illustration was reignited when she rediscovered her childhood drawings and…
Ramin Ahmadi, a physician, poet, and writer, immigrated to the United States in 1981 at the age of seventeen and has not returned to Iran or his childhood city of Kerman since. Prior to attending medical school, he studied Russian history and…
Khosro Pooyandeh began writing through his involvement in theater, studying playwriting at the Samandarian Experimental Theater Center and training at the Mahin Oskooee Theater Academy. He Has studied Educational Sciences and also studied English translation, which he did not complete. His uncensored…
Dr. Ruhollah Hoseini Naveh is a mathematician specializing in set theory and mathematical logic, with research interests spanning forcing, forcing with side conditions, combinatorial and descriptive set theory, inner model theory, large cardinals, determinacy, and cardinal invariants. He earned his Ph.D. in…
Mahsa Foroughi is a poet, screenwriter, researcher, film educator, and Director of Postgraduate Film Programs at BIMM University and MetFilm School. Her journey has traversed architecture, poetry, and cinema, yet throughout these years writing has remained the hidden thread connecting her life…
Sirus Shamlu is an Iranian-Italian playwright, theatre director, writer, translator, and researcher, born in Tehran in 1950 into a distinguished cultural and intellectual family. He is the son of Ahmad Shamlu, one of the most influential poets of modern Persian literature, and…
Saeid Karafarin was born in Tabriz and is a graduate of art and architecture. To date, he has published the short story collection The Dead Man in Room 24 in 2003 through Morgh-e Amin Publishing in Iran, and the graphic novel The…
Rana Soleimani is a writer based in Stockholm. Born in March 1976 in Tehran, she studied economics at the University of Tehran. Since 2015, she has been residing in Sweden and is a member of the Writers in Exile Association as well…
Amir Kalan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education (DISE) at McGill University. His research interests include critical literacy, multiliteracies, second language writing, intercultural rhetoric, multilingual text generation, and multimodal and digital writing. In his research, he mobilizes…