Mehdi Parsamehr, is the record holder of Iran in the sport of archery. This young athlete, besides winning the gold medal for the Iranian national team in the 2011 World Archery Championships, has many other achievements and medals in his sports career. However, he has recently left Iran and moved to the United States due […]...

Conversation with Simin Rouzgar. In Iran, a religious minority has been facing anger and violence for almost four decades; apart from executions and physical elimination, they are constantly subjected to various forms of intimidation, insults, and false accusations by security institutions. They are deprived of education in universities and higher education centers, are not employed […]...

  Conversation with Ali Kalai Ayatollah Montazeri, as one of the great Shia authorities, has repeatedly demonstrated his unique thoughts and ideas in historical moments or sensitive issues. One of them is the issue of the rights of Baha’is. In a statement published in the last years of his life, he spoke about the Baha’is’ […]...

  Conversation with Ali Kalai Ahmad Hakimipour is a politician who, in addition to being present in the fourth term of the Islamic Consultative Assembly and being a member of the Central Council of the Assembly of Representatives of the Terms of the Assembly, has also been a member of the Islamic City and Village […]...

Sadegheh Vasmaghi is one of the prominent figures in religious thought in Iran, who has also entered the field of activities related to participation in Islamic councils in cities and villages. This religious scholar, who holds a PhD in jurisprudence and principles of Islamic law, ran for the first term of Tehran City Council and […]...

Ali Kala’i Behrouz Moqaddam is a filmmaker, critic, and researcher of cinema. He has been active in the field of Iranian and international cinema for over 40 years. Before the revolution, in Bahman 57 (1974), he received the prestigious literary award of Forough Farrokhzad for his writing and editing of a series of books about […]...

Niloufar Beydai, a playwright and theater director, was born in Tehran on January 15, 1967. In 1985, she was forced to leave the country and moved to Germany. She studied German literature, theater, cinema, and television, and education in this country. After completing her studies in 1994, she founded the theater group “Darycheh” in Frankfurt […]...

  Conversation with Simin Rouzgar Mohammad Tangestani is a poet and journalist. He has experience working with various artistic and social publications in Iran, and is the author of books such as “Amir Zahra” and “Citizen of the World”. In the past two years, he has specialized in the field of censorship and self-censorship. In […]...

  Conversation with Siavash Khoramgah Is Iranian cinema currently successful? What is the position of women in this cinema? What is the status of feminism in Iranian cinema? These are among the questions that have been raised in the conversation of peace talks with the enlightening presence of Ala, a researcher, poet, and literary critic, […]...

Masih Alinejad, an Iranian journalist, launched one of the most popular and controversial Persian campaigns on social media in 2014. The “My Stealthy Freedom” campaign currently has over one million followers on Facebook. This campaign shares photos of Iranian women without hijab and provides them with a platform to speak about their experiences of being […]...