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From Street Snacks to Feasts: Discovering Iran’s Food Scene

By Darya Sahami  ~ Walk the streets of Tehran, Isfahan, or Shiraz, and you’ll find more than architectural wonders—each sidewalk stall and bustling bazaar tells a delicious story of a nation’s soul. Iranian...

Iranian Poets and International Platforms: Iran’s Immaterial Capital In the International Period of Interconnectedness

By Amir Hossein Karimi ~ Persian poetry is timeless of unities—within such a vision of increasingly computerized ages of international interconnectedness and cross-fertilization of culture across the world—between Iranian literary heritage of faraway millennia...

The Art of Persian Carpets: Weaving Stories from Floss to Masterwork

By Fariba Khayyam ~ Few symbols of culture are so ubiquitous, and so symbolic, as the Persian rug – and so much more than a kitchen floor mat, for these intricately hand-made rugs contain dozens of centuries of master-crafting, provincial tradition, and family heritage. The Iranian carpet-weaving traditions live on today, restoring age-old techniques and reusing them time and again in new, untrammeled imagination to produce works of stunning loveliness which fill the eyes of the world with awe. Centuries of Ingenuity and Craft Always there has been proof to be found that Persian carpet weaving was well over 2,500 years old, and literary proof found in Xenophon in Anabasis (c. 400 BC)...

The Art of Persian Carpets: Weaving Stories from Floss to Masterwork

By Fariba Khayyam ~ Few symbols of culture are so ubiquitous, and so symbolic, as the Persian rug – and so much more than a...

Iranian Poets and International Platforms: Iran’s Immaterial Capital In the International Period of Interconnectedness

By Amir Hossein Karimi ~ Persian poetry is timeless of unities—within such a vision of increasingly computerized ages of international interconnectedness and cross-fertilization of culture across the world—between Iranian literary heritage of faraway millennia and readers here and now of...

Iran’s Start-Up Boom: Young Entrepreneurs Fuel a New Wave of Innovation

By Amir Toussali ~ How a generation of digitally native entrepreneurs is transforming Iran's economy from the bottom up Tehran's skyline is still seen as a misunderstood one for an oil economy, but there is a quiet revolution in Iran hidden from the naked eye. There is now a new generation of master entrepreneurs—master programmers, designers, and grind in co-working offices of dozens who are re-crafting the future. Sanctions and economic...

Re-ignition of Exports: Iran’s Non-Oil Sectors Stretch Across the Globe

By Ramin Hosseini ~ Diversified exports, ranging from steel and saffron, are opening up Iran's economic space. Iran, one recalls, is all about oil wells. But the vision is greater than that: Iran is transforming...

The Art of Persian Carpets: Weaving Stories from Floss to Masterwork

By Fariba Khayyam ~ Few symbols of culture are so ubiquitous, and so symbolic, as the Persian rug – and...

A Day in Tehran: Style, Cafés, and the Beat of a Modern Capital

By Sahar Rostami ~ Tehran stirs to the hymn of aromas—safer coffee beans, saffron tea, and the city's signature spice...

Iranian Women Redesigning Politics: Women in Command

Iranian women are taking over the political front—topping villages, shaping national agendas, and empowering the next generation after three...