From Miniature to Skyscraper; Modern American and Iranian Painting

PanteA Bahrami BBC-Persian, May 16, 2019 “Beyond : Georgia O’Keefe and Contemporary Art” is the name of the exhibition held at the “British Museum” in the United States from February 22 to... Read more »

Corruption in​ Iran’s Oil and Gas Sector SUMMARY OF FINDINGS

Khosrow B. Semnani Source: Where’s My Oil? A. The Economic cost of Corruption and Sanctions 1. The Nuclear Dispute: The Trillion-Dollar Conflict Based on the Iranian Parliament’s social accounting matrix (SAM), economic... Read more »

Heech Revisited Nothingness being what it is for us Persians: tangible, a real thing-Heech Sculpture

by Parviz Tanavoli Goli Farrell I like my Persian compatriots’ long standing love affair with nothingness. And I say “Persian” to include a literary/linguistic country from Samarqand, Bokhara, Herat, to Balkh, Dushanbe, Ashqabad,... Read more »

Western Persephobia: A Brief Overview​ and Possible Reasons for its Origins

Part One Kaveh Farrokh, Sheda Vasseghi, & Javier Sánchez-Gracia Professor Avram Noam Chomsky (political scientist, linguist, social critic and philosopher) noted in an interview on August 25, 2018 that the American “…... Read more »

Who Owns Iran’s Oil? Corruption in Iran’s Oil and Gas Sector

2nd & final part – President’s Letter, Khosrow B. Semnani (taken from “Where Is My Oil?”) There is nothing random about millions of Iranians finding themselves buried under the poverty line. Bureaucratic... Read more »

Western Persephobia: A Brief Overview​ and Possible Reasons for its Origins

Part One Kaveh Farrokh, Sheda Vasseghi, & Javier Sánchez-Gracia Professor Avram Noam Chomsky (political scientist, linguist, social critic and philosopher) noted in an interview on August 25, 2018 that the American “…... Read more »

Triumph of Self-Empowerment over Darkened Despotic Tyranny

Davood N. Rahni Legend has it that once upon a distant past juncture, ZaHawk a mythological, tyrannical, unjust, and cruel despot, ruled over Persia. Confiscating an ambivalent hiatus with his absolute power,... Read more »

The Sakas — Part Nine

Michael McClain The question of Shi’ism in Muslim Spain is too complex to treat here, but note that Shi’a influence is evident in various aspect of Spanish Catholicism, particulaly in the celebrations... Read more »

​The “Middle East”: A 20th Century Neologism That Has Run Its Time?

Mohammad Ala, OpEd News outlet Neologisms, according to Merriam-Webster, are new words or terms that are coined to express concepts that appear to lack a word or name. ‘Scuba’, “programming,” “subprime” and... Read more »

Iranian Artist Monir Farmanfarmaian​ Passed Away

Born in Iran in the northern province of Qazvin in 1924, Monir wanted to study art in Paris but this was not possible because of World War II. Monir was able to... Read more »