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Daran, ICE has quotas to meet. They are kidnapping those who are easiest to get. They have deported, detained, or…
' Who cares if more of them are male or female? ' I will always call out when the patriarchy…
How disproportionate is it? https://www.statista.com/statistics/257783/estimated-number-of-illegal-immigrants-in-the-us-by-age-and-sex/ There are estimated to be slightly more men than women, but not ten times as…
Can we forget about gender for a moment and concentrate on stopping the ongoing genocide? I doubt anyone here has…
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Category Archives: Iran
“The Duality of Life in Iran” – from Tehran Bureau
In The Duality of Life in Iran, Tehran Bureau’s Correspondent at Large writes the following: Life in Iran is split in halves: the half lived in the open and the half lived behind closed doors. And this duality goes deep: … Continue reading
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The Teller of Tales is Reviewed by Aria Fani on Tehran Bureau
Aria Fani has published on Tehran Bureau a review of my book, The Teller of Tales, which is a translation of the first five stories of Shahnameh, The Book of Kings, also known as the Persian (or Iranian) national epic. … Continue reading
I am a Translator of Classical Iranian Poetry. Or Maybe I’m Not.
So I found out yesterday that I was not elected secretary of my union. I ran not because I was eager to get into union work per se, but because there is serious work that needs to be done on … Continue reading
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Avant-Garde Theater in Iran – Art as Politics, The Politics of Art
To say that art is always political, even when it is not obviously politically engaged, is a truism often used by artists who don’t want to do the difficult work of figuring out, or owning up to, the (usually conservative, … Continue reading
Norouz Pirouz! Eid Moborak! Happy Iranian New Year 2011 – An Auspicious Day to Announce My New Book, “The Teller of Tales: Stories from Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh”
I was, actually, hoping to post this yesterday, before the changing of the year, which happened some time between 6 and 7 PM, but I was very busy and didn’t get a chance to do it. So let me take … Continue reading
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Persian Poetry Tuesday: The Prologue to the Story of Rostam and Sohrab in Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh
Written in the 10th century by Abolqasem Ferdowsi (NPR did a feature on him not too long ago), the Shahnameh (Book of Kings) is the national epic of Iran, telling the nation’s story by recounting the tales of its kings, … Continue reading
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In his speeches, [Khameini] has often cited Lenin’s phrase that if an ideology is not supported by art it will die.
From an article called “The Secrets of Khameini’s Life,” written by Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf. Khameini, Iran’s Supreme Ruler, cares deeply about poetry and what I finnd interesting in this brief profile is the account of how poetry and politics … Continue reading
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The People of Iran…
…took to the streets again, and the irony is not lost on me that while they were doing so I was proofreading the manuscript of The Teller of Tales, my translation of the first five stories in their national epic, the … Continue reading
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Persian Poetry Tuesday: Poetry and Moral Authority, “If The King Sleeps Well,” from Saadi’s Bustan
One of the things that consistently moved me when I was working on my translations of Saadi was the way in which he felt authorized as a poet to speak in a voice of moral instruction to those in power. … Continue reading
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Exactly Dianne. The ICE genocide is another patriarchal measure to strip women of their rights, their freedom and very often,…