Simin Behbahani died on 19 August 2014. She may be best known internationally after President Obama quoted her at the end of his 2011 Nowruz video: “On this day – a celebration that serves as a bridge from the past to the future – I would like to close with a quote from the poet Simin …
Now we just get pizza delivery adverts, but in the 1870s it was manuscripts dated 1446! Or so says the recent BL blog about an overlooked seventeenth century Shahnameh. Apparently Sir George Birdwood, a special assistant working in the revenue and statistical department of the India Office, received a parcel addressed to him in the …
A Iranian peep-box (shahre-farang) is being held by Canadian customs as contravening Canadian trade sanctions – even though the Canadian government funded it an artwork. This has got to be one of the dumbest sanctions ever. Please show your support for the artist, Sadaf Foroughi, by e-signing her petition here. Shahre-farang were traditionally made of …