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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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June 2016

Heteronormativity and the Single Mother

Jacinda Townsend

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June 2016

I.   This spring, in cities and towns all over the United States, schools, churches and other organisations will...

poetry

March 2013

The Humming Lady

James Byrne

poetry

March 2013

The humming lady arrives in a smiling orange smock and orders from the waiter a plate of overripe oranges,...

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July 2014

The Fast, the Furious and the Power of Frivolity

Orlando Whitfield

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July 2014

The six chapters that comprise the Fast & Furious franchise thus far (a seventh is due for release in...

 

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