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Joobin Bekhrad
Joobin Bekhrad is the author of numerous books dealing with Iranian culture. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Economist, Forbes, and The Guardian, as well as on the BBC’s website. In 2015, the Royal College of Art awarded him an International Award for Art Criticism.

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No One Here Gets Out Alive: Kaveh Golestan’s ‘Prostitutes’ Series

Art Review

February 2018

Joobin Bekhrad

Art Review

February 2018

‘The ruins of Rey are near Tehran!’ exclaimed the wayfarers in Sadegh Hedayat’s dark, opium-incensed novel of 1936, The Blind Owl. The fabled city...

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fiction

January 2014

Hagoromo

Paul Griffiths

fiction

January 2014

for the spirit of Jonathan Harvey   There was a fisherman, who lived in a village on a great...

feature

July 2013

Occupy Gezi: From the Fringes to the Centre, and Back Again

Alexander Christie-Miller

feature

July 2013

Taksim Square appears at first a wide, featureless and unlovely place. It is a ganglion of roads and bus...

poetry

July 2012

Fig-tree

John Clegg

poetry

July 2012

He trepans with the blunt screwdriver on his penknife: unripe figs require the touch of air on flesh to...

 

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