Parto Shariatmadari Parto Shariatmadari is an Iranian freelance journalist and literary translator living in the UK. Iran | Jun 19, 2019 Can fiction help an anti-death penalty campaign in Iran? A 456-page semi-autobiographical work by prominent Iranian rights activist Emadeddin Baghi aims to turn the public against the death penalty in the country. Israel | May 17, 2019 Iran's burgeoning ‘resistance literature’: A new front? Despite an ongoing “paper crisis” that has engulfed both print media and publishers, “resistance literature” promoted by the Iranian political establishment is reaching new heights. Iran | Apr 23, 2019 Tehran’s biggest annual cultural event held amid ‘paper crisis’ The biggest annual cultural event in the Iranian capital kicks off amid a paper crisis and a controversy over rentierism tarnishing the publishing industry. Iran | Mar 14, 2019 Can books be used for punishment? The sentencing of a veteran Iranian dissident to a jail term and to copy three books by hand has brought the phenomenon of “alternative sentences” to the fore. Latest News Police detain 100 as pro-Palestinian camp cleared at US university by Joseph Prezioso | AFP | Apr 27, 2024 Influential Iraqi cleric backs US campus protests Agence France-Presse | AFP | Apr 27, 2024 UK ship sets sail to help building of Gaza aid jetty Agence France-Presse | AFP | Apr 27, 2024 See more Podcasts Inside an American university encampment Sister of Israeli-Russian scholar Elizabeth Tsurkov, who is being held by Iran-backed Shiite militia, calls for US military sanctions on Iraq From döner diplomacy to NATO demands, a week in Turkish foreign policy See more
Iran | Jun 19, 2019 Can fiction help an anti-death penalty campaign in Iran? A 456-page semi-autobiographical work by prominent Iranian rights activist Emadeddin Baghi aims to turn the public against the death penalty in the country.
Israel | May 17, 2019 Iran's burgeoning ‘resistance literature’: A new front? Despite an ongoing “paper crisis” that has engulfed both print media and publishers, “resistance literature” promoted by the Iranian political establishment is reaching new heights.
Iran | Apr 23, 2019 Tehran’s biggest annual cultural event held amid ‘paper crisis’ The biggest annual cultural event in the Iranian capital kicks off amid a paper crisis and a controversy over rentierism tarnishing the publishing industry.
Iran | Mar 14, 2019 Can books be used for punishment? The sentencing of a veteran Iranian dissident to a jail term and to copy three books by hand has brought the phenomenon of “alternative sentences” to the fore.
Police detain 100 as pro-Palestinian camp cleared at US university by Joseph Prezioso | AFP | Apr 27, 2024
Sister of Israeli-Russian scholar Elizabeth Tsurkov, who is being held by Iran-backed Shiite militia, calls for US military sanctions on Iraq