Shirin Behzadi shares how fleeing Iran alone at 18 led her from gas station shifts to becoming the CEO of a billion-dollar ...
Opinion

My Dream for Iran

Arash Azizi imagines a democratic, inclusive Iran after the 2022 protests—where culture, freedom, and pluralism can finally thrive.
Since the 1979 revolution in Iran that put Shiite clerics into power, the country’s internal unrest has featured in American media coverage with such regularity that, to a casual audience, it’s become ...
Rock still maintains an aura of rebellion in Iran so it’s not surprising that it continues to show up in Iranian New Wave cinema. In 2008’s animated Persepolis, Marji buys heavy metal and punk albums ...