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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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poetry

November 2014

Lay and Other Poems

Pere Gimferrer

TR. Adrian Nathan West

poetry

November 2014

Ode to Venice Before the Sea of Theaters (from Arde el mar, 1966)   The false cups, the poison,...

Interview

June 2015

Interview with Moyra Davey

Hannah Gregory

Interview

June 2015

One way to think about Moyra Davey’s way of working across photography, film and text is in terms of...

Art

December 2013

When We Were Here: The 1990s in Film

Masha Tupitsyn

Art

December 2013

‘I remember touch. Pictures came with touch.’ -Daft Punk, ‘Touch’   In the 1990s, three important pre post-reality films...

 

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