Selected Articles
2013 — 2020

‘[Joobin’s] articles are brilliant and so
well-researched.’
Barbara Hulanicki, OBE

Remembering Johnny Thunders Through Those Who Knew Him
Another Man, 2017
Photograph: Marcia Resnick

A — C

Aesthetica

Basilico Before Basilico

AnOther

John Malkovich Speaks on Recreating 61 Seminal Photographic Portraits

The Unseen Polaroids of Linda McCartney

Another Man

A ‘Modern-Day Gomorrah’: Capturing the After-Dark Activities of Studio 54

Unseen Photos of David Bowie at the Height of His Fame

A Masterclass in Songwriting from Johnny Marr

Keith Richards: Rock and Roll’s Ultimate Style Icon

Remembering Johnny Thunders Through Those Who Knew Him

Why Iran’s Impact on Rock and Roll Is Criminally Overlooked

Forty Years on, Marc Bolan Remains the Prince of Glam Rock

Anthropology of the Middle East

Review: Tasfiya

Volume 10, Issue 2

Apollo
Divine Mysteries at Asia House

ArtAsiaPacific

Moving Still: Performative Photography in India

Siah Armajani: Follow This Line

Issue 111
Yoko Ono: The Riverbed

Issue 108
Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians

Issue 107
Artsy

A Lebanese Artist’s Nude Photographs Spark Scandal and Inspiration

The Art Newspaper

Capitalising on its Acquisition, Art Gallery of Ontario Unfurls a Diane Arbus Retrospective

What Kanye West Has Gotten Wrong So Far in His Opera About Nebuchadnezzar

Ai Weiwei Show Brings Out Tensions Between Canada and China

French
A Love Letter to a Grittier, Punk-Accented New York

Shirin Aliabadi, Known for Depicting Rebellious Iranian Women, Is Dead

In a Troubled Iranian Era, Art Defied Darkness

Obituary: Abbas (1944 – 2018)

Russian
At Large

Concreet

April 2018 issue cover story
BBC

The Story of the ‘Queen of Flowers’

Vietnamese
Iran’s Ingenious Delivery Solution

Vietnamese
A Thirteenth-Century Persian Poet’s Lessons for Today

Turkish
Why Was a Floral Fabric Banned?

Greek
The Trippy Music Posters That Defined the Counterculture

Why Are the French So Chic?

Vietnamese
What Does it Mean to Be ‘Camp’?

Chinese · Indonesian
The Electric Spark That Changed the Guitar Forever

Vietnamese
Iran’s Fascinating Way to Tell Fortunes

Chinese · Indonesian · Portuguese
The Book of Kings: the Book That Defines Iranians

Persian
Iran’s Ancient Engineering Marvel

Chinese · Indonesian
What Iran’s Dazzling Art Tells Us About its Civilisation

Chinese · Indonesian · Persian · Turkish
The T-Shirt: a Rebel with a Cause

The Rubaiyat: History’s Most Luxurious Book of Poetry?

Arani · Persian · Spanish · Turkish · Vietnamese
The Ancient Symbol That Spanned Millennia

Indonesian
The Timeless Appeal of the Persian Rug

Chinese · Turkish
The Ancient ‘Arabic Kama Sutra’

Indonesian · Persian · Spanish · Vietnamese
The Mystics Who Found Meaning in Solar Panels

Chinese · Vietnamese
The Iranian Religion That Shaped the West

Czech · Indonesian · Persian · Portuguese · Russian · Spanish · Turkish · Vietnamese
Benji Knewman

The Place to Which I Shall Return

Volume 2
Blanc Magazine

Paria Farzaneh

Russian
Bright Lights Film Journal

Marc Bolan and Born to Boogie: the Great Unsung Rock and Roll Film

The British Library

Tagore Meets an Old Friend in Iran

Untold Lives
The Cairo Review of Global Affairs

Tehran Bazaar

Issue 14
Campaign

Art and Iran

The Iran Report
Canvas

A Show About Nothing

March 2015 issue
The Chicago Review of Books

Wonder and Wine in The Robaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Christie’s

Ramhani, Deconstructed

CNN

Rolling Stones’ Ronnie Wood: Painting Is My ‘God-Given Talent’

Vintage Photos Show the Realities of Life After World War I

D — Z

Dust

Children of the Revolution

SS 2016 issue
The Economist

Shiraz in Shiraz: Why Wine Is Integral to Persian Culture

Encyclopaedia Iranica

Hushang Irani

Translated from the Persian
The Financial Times

Spotlight on Guitar Heroes (and Heroines)

April 12, 2019 edition
‘A Prayer for Mecca’: Ahmed Mater’s Portrait of a City in Transition

December 9, 2018 edition
Forbes

What Exactly Is the ‘Islamic’ World?

Persian
Frieze

Shift

Issue 190
GQ (British)

Twelve of Keith Richards’ Strongest Looks to Embrace This Year

The Beatles’ Most Fashionable Moments

Yes, You Should Start Dressing Like Freddie Mercury

Why You Need to Start Dressing Like Johnny Marr

How to Recreate the Rolling Stones’ Most Stylish Moments

World Cup 2018 Kits Ranked: From Worst to Best

How to Recreate Paul Weller’s Most Stylish Moments

Whole Lotta Style: Led Zeppelin’s Sartorial Legacy

The Guardian

Pink Floyd’s Burning Man: Aubrey Powell’s Best Photograph

August 13, 2020 edition
Glitter and Curls: Marc Bolan and the Birth of Glam Rock Style

Republished by the Gulf [sic] Times (June 30, 2020 edition)
What an Iranian Film About a Leper Colony Can Teach Us About Coronavirus

Persian
On the Shoulders of Giants in Southwest Iran

Harper’s Bazaar Art

Home, or Something Like It

September-October 2015 issue
Cold Turkey

March-April 2015 issue
i-D

The Unspoken Iranian Influence on Western Fashion

The Independent

‘I’m Sure You Can Do Better, John’: the Story Behind the Rolling Stones Logo

Marc Bolan — an Overlooked Fashion Icon

The LA Review of Books

What a Fifty-Year-Old Persian Classic Tells Us About [Iran’s] Predicament Today

Little White Lies

Gheisar vs Get Carter: the Iranian Precursor to a British Crime Classic

The Strange Case of the Rolling Stones’ Rock and Roll Circus

The London Magazine

Layli and Majnun: ‘the Romeo and Juliet of the East’

The Warlock of Love: Revisiting Marc Bolan’s Forgotten Poetry Book Fifty Years On

Metal

Keanoush Da Rosa – Persian Heritage in Contemporary Fashion

Metro

Leonardo DiCaprio Can’t Play Rumi Because He Wasn’t White – Or Was He?

Monocle

By Royal Appointment: Postcard from Iran

Winter Weekly (Issue 3)
The New York Times

How the ‘Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World’ Got its Logo

April 14, 2020 edition

Republished by The Independent
Japanese · Portuguese · Spanish
The Least-Known Most Influential Man in Fashion

September 21, 2017 edition

Republished by The Independent
Nin

Prurience in Persia: the Lascivious World of Qajar Iran

April 2018 issue
Paper

Inside Thierry Mugler’s World: Where Women Dominate Men

PRI

Mr Trump, Lovers of Iran Would Like to Thank You for Helping Our Cause

The Rake

Keith Richards: Elegantly Wasted

Issue 55

Japanese
Royal College of Art

Sin City

IAAC Exhibition Reviews Annual 2014-15
Slate

Disney’s Aladdin Is a Fake

The Telegraph

From Elvis Presley to Patti Smith and the Stones, Rock Music Is Built on Racism: Why Don’t We Care?

The Times Literary Supplement

Kiss My Lips: Female Poets in the Persian Language

February 21, 2020 edition
Travel Plus

Travelogue: Tehran

Vanity Fair

A Walk Through Anna Sui’s Rock and Roll World

The Washington Post

London Museum Exhibition Focuses on Frida Kahlo as a Style Icon

July 8, 2018 edition
The White Review

No One Here Gets Out Alive: Kaveh Golestan’s Prostitutes Series

Special Thanks
(Selected Interviewees)

Agnès B.
Faris Badwan
Zowie Broach
Alan Edwards
Blake Gopnik
Albert Hammond, Jr
Katharine Hamnett
Salma Hayek
Barbara Hulanicki
Cath Kidston

Christian Lacroix
John Malkovich
Isabel Marant
Johnny Marr
Glen Matlock
Sandro Miller
Thierry Mugler
Shirin Neshat
Terry O’Neill
John Pasche
Aubrey Powell

Zandra Rhodes
Marjane Satrapi
Paul Smith
Chris Stein
Anna Sui
Parviz Tanavoli
Kenzo Takada
Dries Van Noten
John Varvatos
Nigel Waymouth
Ronnie Wood

Rolling Stones’ Ronnie Wood: Painting Is My ‘God-Given Talent’
CNN, 2019
Photograph: Mirrorpix