Foreword
Khaled Mattawa: A special Editor’s Note
Forward
Kathryn Babayan: After 1979: Literature from Iran and the Diaspora
Nonfiction
- Salar Abdoh: Lies, Fame, Memory, Illness, and the Theater of Reza Abdoh
- Sandy Feinstein: Freestyle
- M.R. Ghanoonparvar: Displaced Entities, Shattered Identities, and the Loss of Paradise
- Mojgan Ghazirad: A Woman Warrior
- Mason Jabbari: Rolling a Boulder Uphill
- Habibe Jafarian (trans. by Salar Abdoh): The Ingrid Bergman Principle
- Amy Motlagh: Between the Acts: Witnessing the Egyptian Revolution, Remembering the Iranian Revolution
- Kusha Sefat: The End of Romanticism in Tehran
Fiction
- Hossein Mortezaeian Abkenar (trans. by Sara Khalili): Second Slice of Darkness
- Javad Afhami (trans. by Salar Abdoh): Bedtime
- Dena Afrasiabi: Ayatollahland
- Amir Ahmadi Arian: Shafaq Park
- Aliyeh Ataei (trans. by Salar Abdoh): The Alcove
- Nilofar Shidmehr: Sakeen
Poetry
- Reza Afazali (trans. by Franklin Lewis): Siavash
- Qeysar Aminpur (trans. by Paul Losensky): The Inescapable Day
- Vahe Armen (trans. by Franklin Lewis): Dreamdaze
- Armen Davoudian: Saffron Rice
- Leila Emery: Persian
- Mohammad Reza Shafi’i Kadkani (trans. by Abdullah Zahiri): An Elegy for the Tree
- Mohammad Reza Shafi’i Kadkani (trans. by Kamyar & Harriet Levin): The Message of Spring; The Rain’s Travelogue; Before You
- Saba Keramati: Two Pomegranates for Winter Solstice
- Haji Khavari (trans. by Roger Sedarat): At the Same Dead End
- Saïdeh Pakravan: The Exile Star
- Arash Saedinia: Proof
- Amir Safi: Saffron
- Mo H Saidi: Hafiz’s Paradise; Books in Paradise
- Sayyed Ali Salehi (trans. Shahla Farghadani): I Swear by the Moon of the Hashemites that I Speak the Truth
- H.E. Sayeh (trans. Fayre Makeig): The Poet; In the Rose Garden
- Roger Sedarat: The IR N NU Deal; Say Uncle; Nightline
- Sohrab Sepehri (trans. by Franklin Lewis): Toward the Image of the Friend
- Sohrab Sepehri (trans. by Armen Davoudian): Cheers from Long Ago
- Fatemeh Shams (trans. by Dick Davis): Three Chairs
- Sanam Shahmiri: To Neda After the Uprising; Azadi
- Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad: Isfahan, 2010
You can purchase our Spring 2019 issue here.
And enjoy our Web-Exclusive Iran Folio of interviews, reviews, Arts and Culture essays, and excerpts from the Print journal:
- An essay on cover artist Mehdi Ghadyanloo, “Finding Hope Amidst an Uncertain Economy: Mehdi Ghadyanloo at the 2019 World Economic Forum,” by Pamela Karimi
- Iranian Cinema, Then and Now: An Interview with Blake Atwood and Pedram Partovi, by Cameron Cross
- “A Lover Alone in Prison:” A Conversation between Ilan Stavans and Sara Khalili
- “Both a Poem and a Microcosm:” An Interview with Roja Chamankar by Leah Xue
- And, “Why I Chose This,” a series of excerpts of essays, fiction, and poetry from our Print Issue, introduced by MQR Staff Readers.
