Selected Press



‘[A] leading figure in the art world.’
Newsweek
‘A uniquely personal take on a wonderful assortment of stories revolving around Iranian culture.’
Georgina Godwin, Monocle, on With My Head in the Clouds and Stars in My Eyes




The Ten Most-Read Another Man Stories of the Year
Another Man, 2017
Photograph: Alberto García-Alix



A — K

Another Man

The Ten Most-Read Another Man Stories of the Year

AOL

Marjane Satrapi Always Defied Convention

Art + Antiques

Rising in the East


Art Dubai

Mixtape: Persian Fire

The Art Newspaper

Behnam-Bakhtiar 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
The Costume Society

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

Kayhan London

Reorient Magazine founder publishes debut novel
L — Z


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
Merriam-Webster

Devastation; Relevancy; Harming

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

MSN

Marjane Satrapi Always Defied Convention

Rabindranath Tagore’s Cultural Journey in Iran: a Historical Connection

Newsweek

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

Qatar National Library

Shater: the Origins and History of the Persian Foot Messenger

Sirius XM

Interview

Volume (March 19, 2019)
The Tehran Times

A Brief History of the Postal Service in Ancient Iran

TIME

Marjane Satrapi Always Defied Convention

The Washington Post

Guns ’N’ Roses Nixes Racist, Homophobic Song from Appetite for Destruction Reissue

Yahoo!

Marjane Satrapi Always Defied Convention

Kanye West Put the Wrong Emperor on His Nebuchadnezzar Opera Invite








Selected Literary References + Mentions



‘In a highly idiosyncratic piece, Joobin Bekhrad traces the history of the Persian wine tradition ...’
Kamran Talattof in Nezami Ganjavi and Classical Persian Literature
‘Thank you.’
Alan Edwards in I Was There: Dispatches from a Life in Rock and Roll






A. Al-Azm and M.M. Rahman (eds), Social Change in the Gulf [sic] Region: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Singapore, Springer Singapore, 2023, p. 330.

A. Alsalloum (ed.), Tracing Intangible Cultural Migrant Heritage in the UK, Cham, Springer Nature Switzerland, 2026, p. 182.

N. Carr, Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart, New York City, W.W. Norton, 2025.

S. Chan, OBE, The International Politics of an Embodied God, London, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2024, p. 120.

R. Close, Decolonizing Images, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2024, pp. 117 – 147.

L. Divita, Fashion Forecasting, 5th ed., New York City, Fairchild Books, 2019, p. 136.

A. Edwards, I Was There: Dispatches from a Life in Rock and Roll, London, Simon & Schuster, 2024, p. 314.

A.J. Fromherz, The Center of the World: a Global History of the Persian Gulf from the Stone Age to the Present, Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2024, p. 279.

P. Gallagher, Marc Bolan: Tyrannosaurus Rex and T. Rex: Every Album, Every Song, Tewkesbury, Sonicbond Publishing, 2021.

I. Goldin and T. Lee-Devlin, Age of the City: Why Our Future Will Be Won or Lost Together, London, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.

R.T. Goodman, Film as World Literature, London, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025, p. 61. 

P. Gorman, Granny Takes a Trip: High Fashion and High Times at the Wildest Rock ’n’ Roll Boutique, London, Orion, 2025.

S. Gülşah and I. Tombul (eds), Handbook of Research on Contemporary Approaches to Orientalism in Media and Beyond, Hershey, IGI Global, 2021, p. 104.

P. Karimi, Alternative Iran: Contemporary Art and Critical Spatial Practice, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2022.

B. Kelley and C. Tornatzky, An Artistic Approach to Virtual Reality, Boca Raton, CRC Press, 2023.
K.A. Kleppinger and L. Reeck, Post-Migratory Cultures in Postcolonial France, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2018, p. 254.

D.Z. Lieberman, Spellbound: Modern Science, Ancient Magic, and the Hidden Potential of the Unconscious Mind, Dallas, BenBella Books, 2022.

A. Maldahiyar, Babur: the Chessboard King, Delhi, Penguin Random House, 2024.

S. Malekzadeh, ‘Forlorn Arabs and Flying Americans: National Identity in the Early Childhood Curriculum of Postrevolutionary Iran, 1979 – 2009’, Iranian Studies (Cambridge University Press), vol. 55, no. 3, 2022, pp. 741 – 764.

P. Micklethwaite, Beyond Recycling, Milton Park, Taylor & Francis, 2021.

A. Motlagh, Colorblind: Racial Thinking and Cultural Production in Modern Iran and the Diaspora, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2026.

B. Rahimi, Performing Iran: Culture, Performance, Theatre, London, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021, p. 228.

M.D.F. Rosa, Reception of Mesopotamia on Film, Hoboken, Wiley, 2021, p. 209.

S. Sahani, ‘The Legacy of Glam Rock: Queer Fashion, Media and Urban Subcultural Dynamics’, Fashion, Style & Popular Culture (Intellect Journals), 2026.

M. Salazkina, World Socialist Cinema: Alliances, Affinities, and Solidarities in the Global Cold War, Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2023, p. 320.

G. Takach, Environmental Communication and Conciliation: Exploring Arts-Based and Indigenous Approaches, New York City, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2026, p. 217.

K. Talattof, Nezami Ganjavi and Classical Persian Literature, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, p. 157.

N. Tomabechi, Supervillains: the Significance of Evil in Superhero Comics, New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 2025, p. 188.

K. Walker, Interpreting Music, Engaging Culture: an Introduction to Music Criticism, Milton Park, Taylor & Francis, 2024.