SELECTED PRESS
2012 — PRESENT
NEWSWEEK
‘Sequins, Satin, and Glam Rock: an Ode to Marc Bolan, “Who Started it All”’
The Costume Society, 2017Photograph: Electric Boogie Inc.
The Costume Society, 2017Photograph: Electric Boogie Inc.
The Ten Most-Read Another Man Stories of the Year
ART + ANTIQUES
Rising in the East
ART DUBAI
Mixtape: Persian Fire
THE ART NEWSPAPER
Behnam-Bakthiar Award Set Up to Promote Iranian Art
Art World Reels from Trump’s Immigration Ban
BOOKS.FR
Mille ans de vers persans au féminin
May 2020 issue
CBC
How Will Renewed Economic Relations with Iran Affect Iranian-Canadians?
The Current
THE COMPLETE REVIEW
On Savushun
CORNUCOPIA
Yashar Kemal: a Writer’s Hero
Summer 2016 issue
THE COURTAULD NEWS
From Uckfield to Persepolis
Issue 38
Sequins, Satin, and Glam Rock: an Ode to Marc Bolan, ‘Who Started it All’
ELLE
Di rosa in rose aka come, quando e perché il più perfetto tra i fiori è diventato il più amato della moda
ESQUIRE
Канье Уэст поставит оперу о вавилонском царе Навуходоносоре
FARHANG FOUNDATION
Sex, Drugs, and Gol-o-Bolbol
Annual Report 2019 – 2021
THE GLOBE AND MAIL
From Tehran to Toronto and Everywhere in Between
October 15, 2016 edition
HARPER’S BAZAAR ART
Calling All Iranian Artists: the Behnam-Bakhtiar Award
The Real Me
HIGHSNOBIETY
Twitter Says Kanye West’s New Opera Is ‘Amazing & Impressive’
HYPEBEAST
Kanye West Puts Wrong Emperor on Nebuchadnezzar Opera Invite
HYPERALLERGIC
Cairo Policy Journal Delves into Art and Politics
Reorient Magazine founder publishes debut novel
THE LILY
People Are Still Inspired by Frida Kahlo’s Looks. A New Museum Exhibition Focuses on Her Life as a Style Icon
L’OFFICIEL HOMMES
l’Orient Autrement
Issue 63
MAGIC OF PERSIA
Interview
The Current Express (Issue 4)
MAJESTIC DISORDER
Interview
AW 2015 issue
MICROSOFT CONNECTS
Innovator of the Week: Joobin Bekhrad
MILENIO
Una poeta
MONOCLE
A radio interview with Books Editor Georgina Godwin
Sunday Brunch (February 2018)
MORNING STAR
Enlightening Voyage Through a Young Iranian’s Inner World
Leading Figures in the Art World Support Palestinian Artist Sentenced to Death for Apostasy
POETRY FOUNDATION
BBC Investigates Very Rare Rubaiyat
POPMATTERS
How Kenneth Anger Created Camp Cinema With His Short Film Puce Moment
PRI
An interview with Marco Werman
The World
PULL&BEAR
PulltheMetal
SIRIUS XM
Interview
Volume (March 19, 2019)
THE TEHRAN TIMES
A Brief History of the Postal Service in Ancient Iran
THE WASHINGTON POST
Guns ’N’ Roses Nixes Racist, Homophobic Song from Appetite for Destruction Reissue
YAHOO!
Kanye West Put the Wrong Emperor on His Nebuchadnezzar Opera Invite
‘Yashar Kemal: a Writer’s Hero’
Cornucopia, 2016Photograph: Ara Güler
SELECTED
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KAMRAN TALATOFF in Nezami Ganjavi and Classical Persian Literature
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L. Divita, Fashion Forecasting, 5th ed., New York City, Fairchild Books, 2019, p. 136.
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A. Maldahiyar, Babur: the Chessboard King, Delhi, Penguin Random House, 2024.
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