Hardly was the work of creation completed when God decided to destroy what he had made. “The earth became corrupt … More
Tag: Iran
This is not the end
At its height, around 620 CE, the Sasanian empire ruled over a territory stretching from Jerusalem in the west to … More
Reading Rorty in Tehran
When the late American philosopher Richard Rorty arrived to deliver a lecture in Tehran on a summer night in 2004, … More
Our men in al-Sham
Over the last few years, Seth Frantzman and Jonathan Spyer have reported on the ground from Syria and Iraq, as … More
Ahmadinejad’s bizarre bid for political relevance
In early April, the United States designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the most powerful branch of the Iranian military, … More
Farrakhan compares Trump to Satan during visit to Iran
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan compared US President Donald Trump to Satan and encouraged Iranians to resist American “plots” … More
Iranian immigrant raises over 1m. for Pittsburgh synagogue
Shay Khatiri, an Iranian immigrant to the United States, has raised more than $1 million for Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life … More
Echoes of the revolution
Widespread demonstrations protesting the deteriorating economic situation continued throughout Iran on Tuesday. Pictures and video posted to social media and … More
Iran bans Telgram
Iran’s ban of Telegram messaging app sparks infighting. Unlike previous efforts to block Facebook, Twitter and satellite TV, last Monday’s … More
Coming out, getting in
Payam Feili is a gay Iranian poet. Nadav Schwartz is an Orthodox Israeli Jew. But in ways both astoundingly similar … More
A tantalising find from the Jews of medieval Afghanistan
In 1946, the French philologist André Dupont-Sommer published the first Jewish tombstone inscription from Firozkoh in Afghanistan. Dated between the … More
The most dangerous man in Iran
This past March Tehran University political science professor Sadegh Zibakalam said the unspeakable
The morning after
I was in New York on September 11th
Before the revolution
Israeli director Dan Shadur talks about his new documentary about life under the Shah
Reading Persian in Jerusalem
As Israel and Iran trade threats, first Iranian novels appear in Hebrew
Zoroastrian Exegetical Parables in the Škand Gumānīg Wizār
The parable has received little attention as a form in Zoroastrian Pahlavi literature.
The Afghan geniza
The road between the Afghani cities of Ghazni and Bamiyan is fraught with danger