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Naseem Jamnia
Naseem is a queer, nonbinary, Persian, trans, Chicagoan, writer, neuroscientist, baker, nerd, gamer.
Born to Iranian immigrants, I was raised...
Dariush Shayegan
Dariush Shayegan (Persian: داریوش شایگان; 24 January 1935 – 22 March 2018) was one of the most consequential thinkers of contemporary Iran and the Ne...
Sara Farizan
Sara Farizan is an American writer of young adult literature.
Her debut novel, If You Could Be Mine, won the Ferro-Grumley Award, the Edmund White Awa...
Marjane Satrapi
Marjane Satrapi (French: [maʁʒan satʁapi]; Persian: مرجان ساتراپی [mæɾˈdʒɒːn(e) sɒːtɾɒːˈpiː]; born 22 November 1969) is a French-Iranian graphic novel...
Adib Khorram
Adib Khorram is a queer Iranian-American author. He was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. A theater kid in high school, he went on to study de...
Azar Nafisi
Azar Nafisi (Persian: آذر نفیسی; born 1948) is an Iranian-American writer and professor of English literature. Born in Tehran, Iran, she has resided i...
Masoud Banisadr
Masoud Banisadr was born in Tehran in 1953. In 1976 he travelled to the UK, where he obtained postgraduate degrees in Engineering-Mathematics. Bani...
Maryam Haydari
شاعرة ومترجمة إيرانية، مواليد 1984 في الأهواز-إيران. ترجمت العديد من الشعراء والكتاب الإيرانيين والأفغان إلى العربية كما ترجمت شعراء وكتابا عربا إلى ا...
Arsham Parsi
Arsham Parsi is an Iranian LGBT human rights activist living in exile in Canada. He is the founder and head of the International Railroad for Queer Re...
Abdi Nazemian
Abdi Nazemian (born 1976) is an Iranian-American author, screenwriter, and producer. His debut novel, The Walk-In Closet, won the Lambda Literary Awar...
Abbas Maroufi
Abbas Maroufi (Persian: عباس معروفی, 17 May 1957 in Sangsar– 1 September 2022 in Berlin) was an Iranian novelist and journalist. His most famous novel...
Natascha Sadr Haghighian
Natascha Sadr Haghighian is an artist known for assuming multiple identities. Her official press releases and gallery biographies conflict on country ...
Hamid Dabashi
Hamid Dabashi (Persian: حمید دباشی; born 1951) is an Iranian-American professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University i...
Reza Aslan
Reza Aslan is an internationally acclaimed writer and scholar of religions. His first book, No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Isla...
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar (Persian: ناصرالدین‌شاه قاجار, romanized: Nāser-ad-Din Ŝāh-e Qājār; 17 July 1831 – 1 May 1896) was the fourth Shah of Qajar Ir...
Rowayat
In 2012, Rowayat روايات launched as a literary journal platforming the hybrid writer, focusing on E...
Abbas Kiarostami
Abbas Kiarostami (Persian: عباس کیارستمی [ʔæbˌbɒːs kijɒːɾostæˈmi] ; 22 June 1940 – 4 July 2016) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, phot...
Naseem Jamnia
Naseem is a queer, nonbinary, Persian, trans, Chicagoan, writer, neuroscientist, baker, nerd, gamer.
Born to Iranian immigrants, I was raised...
Dariush Shayegan
Dariush Shayegan (Persian: داریوش شایگان; 24 January 1935 – 22 March 2018) was one of the most consequential thinkers of contemporary Iran and the Ne...
