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…

Maryam Jafari Azarmani, born in 1977 in Tehran, is a poet, researcher, and literary critic. She holds a PhD in Persian Language and Literature and a bachelor’s degree in French Language. To date, she has published 17 poetry collections and two research…

Daryoush Karimi was born in Kermanshah. He studied English literature in Tehran. His translation of a book on Mikhail Bakhtin’s views on literary criticism, titled Dialogic Logic by Tzvetan Todorov, dates from this period. He taught English literature and literary theory at…

According to numerous literary chronicles, Abdulhossain San’atizadeh played a pioneering role in the development of the historical novel and the formation of science fiction and utopian genres in modern Persian literature. The importance of his works in shaping feminist and multi-genre literature…

Professor Esfandiar Eslami is one of Iran’s most distinguished mathematicians and a retired professor of mathematics at Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman. After earning his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Mathematics from Pahlavi University (now Shiraz University), he completed his Ph.D. in Mathematical…

M. R. Ghanoonparvar is Professor Emeritus of Persian and Comparative Literature at The University of Texas at Austin. Professor Ghanoonparvar has also taught at the University of Isfahan, the University of Virginia, and the University of Arizona, and was a Rockefeller Fellow at…