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‘Reading Lolita in Tehran’ Review: A Beloved Literary Memoir About Rebellion Through Reading Gets a Straightforward Cine...

Azar Nafisi's story of forming a covert book club for Iranian women made her a beloved literary figure, but the film adaptation struggles to rise above platitudes.

Review: The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi’s best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir of growing up as a girl in Iran during the revolution has for twenty years been a clas...

Dina Nayeri : Marjane Satrapi brought Iranian women like me out of hiding

The Persepolis author understood us and translated us for the world. We have lost our most eloquent spokespersonMarjane Satrapi has died and every Iranian woman I know is in shock...

Review: ‘Persepolis,’ by Marjane Satrapi

A memoir and a history of Iran’s turbulent 20th-century politics, one comic strip frame at a time.

Shahrnush Parsipur, Iranian author of Women Without Men, dies at 80

The revered writer and political exile’s publisher says her ‘legacy in literary history can’t be compared to anyone else’s’Shahrnush Parsipur, the celebrated Iranian writer whose s...

A moment that changed me: A telegram arrived – and I had to choose between my head and my heart

Should I follow the man of my dreams to work in a club in Tehran? Or take up a place at an elite university? Thankfully, my dad gave me advice I’ve lived by ever since My parents d...

Reading Marjane Satrapi’s comic book Persepolis during Iran war

Comic book author Marjane Satrapi passed away last week in Paris at age 56, just before conflict between Israel and her native Iran re-erupted. While her work has enjoyed enduring...

The Book Yiyun Li Recommends Most

The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer on a few of her favorite works.

‘I’m a soldier. I don’t have a gun, but I have a pen and a camera’: Mahnaz Mohammadi on fighting the Iranian regime

The director and activist on her fictional drama Roya, drawing on her experience of imprisonment and torture, and why even in Europe she feels unsafeMahnaz Mohammadi is a survivor....

‘I laughed out loud dozens of times’: authors choose books to make you fall back in love with reading

From a darkly comic new novel to a gripping 1950s memoir – Katherine Rundell, Malala Yousafzai, Matt Haig and others appearing at Hay festival pick titles to tempt youMalala Yousaf...

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Exclusively for Haaretz readers: The first chapter from 'Love and Other Enchantments'

In the first chapter of Masha Zur-Glozman's debut novel, an Israeli woman discovers a secret passage to the 13th-century Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, where wonder, danger and une...

Found in Translation: Bothayna Al-Essa’s The Book Censor’s Library

A satiric dystopia about censorship and art The post Found in Translation: Bothayna Al-Essa’s <i>The Book Censor’s Library</i> appeared first on Reactor.

A Conversation Between Immigrant Writers on Shame, Fear, and Responsibility

By Rebecca Morrison I left Iran in 1979, and wrote a novel, The Blue Dress, based on my childhood as an Iranian immigrant struggling with body image, and a complicated mother-daugh...

Reading a Pakistani author’s 30-year-old novel helped me understand my parents’ views on intermarriage

When I was a kid, I was haunted by the threat of my parents rejecting me if I married a non-Jew. Raised on Disney movies and song lyrics about soulmates, I spent almost every momen...

Visiting Privileges

Harriet Clark’s debut novel is a fable-like story of growing up in the fallout of a family’s radical dreams.

Women in Iran: What Life is Really Like

The state of women in Iran has been widely discussed in Western media. But what does someone who's actually lived in Iran have to say? The post Women in Iran: What Life is Really L...

On Our Radar: Expats in Japan, Cree Poetry, Girls Trip Gone Wild, and More!

Welcome to Sunny Town, by Theodora Armstrong (Freehand Books)About the book: This is the story of Maggie, a young artist stuck in her relationship and creative process who decides...

The Best Book of the 21st Century So Far?

Let's talk about the global phenomenon that ignited "Ferrante Fever" and the lore around its author.

How Tehran Won the World

Iran’s defiance in the face of Western aggression has become a rallying cry.

A Passage Elsewhere: Ahlam Bolooki talks about self-discovery

With everything in modern life seeming to move at an unrelenting pace, literature remains one of the few spaces where time disappears and perspective deepens. Books offer more than...

This Book Made Me: Jean Little's From Anna

From Anna came into my life in l972 when I was twelve, in the middle of a difficult seventh grade and just a couple of years away from being shoved into the psychiatric system. I l...

Why the loss of Oscar-nominated Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi is a tragedy for Iran

The French-Iranian filmmaker shed light on the untold lives of Iranian women following the 1979 Islamic Revolution. As the US-Iran conflict seems to have no end in sight, Maira But...

Angst, Isolation, beobachtet werden: Wie der Iran Exil­jour­na­lis­t*in­nen angreift

Weltweit übt das iranische Regime Gewalt gegen Ak­ti­vis­t*in­nen und Jour­na­lis­t*in­nen aus. Unsere Autorin erlebt es selbst. mehr...