TEHRAN – In the past, the air was supposed to keep us alive, but it seemingly has changed its duty, like many other things, to kill us.

Unfortunately, Iranian metropolises are choked by polluted air. For a week, the acrid air shut down the schools and held residents, hostage, in their homes.

Hazardously polluted days also four folded in Tehran

TEHRAN – “The Ideal Family” by the New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield has been published in Persian by Mahi.

First published in a literary magazine in 1921, the short story has been translated by Narges Entekhabi.

Mansfield loves to make the title of her stories literally perceivable of the theme. In this story, it is about the life of old Mr.

TEHRAN – “Summer with the Enemy” by Shahla Ujayli has recently been published in Persian.

Translated by Parisa Arab, the book was published by Maniahonar.

The popular Western imagination about the now devastated city of Raqqa, Syria is filled with static and clichéd images of the Arab world. 

On the news, Raqqa looks like a dusty and abandoned desert

TEHRAN – “The Valiant”, a one-act play from the 1920s by Harold Everett Porter, also known by his pen name Holworthy Hall, and Robert Middlemass is being performed at the Hall 3 of Tehran’s Shahrzad Theater Complex.

Amir-Sina Javadi is the director of the play starring Amir Ghaffarmanesh, Mahmud Musavi, Mahshid Javadi, Alireza Ajideh and Mehdi