Iran Liberalism

By Roxana Hadadi | Film | September 14, 2019 | By Roxana Hadadi | Film | September 14, 2019 | Iranian cinema generally falls into three broad genres: humanist, fourth-wall-breaking cinema, like that of the late, great Abbas Kiarostami; documentaries that a…

US President Donald Trump calls his administration's strategy for keeping nuclear weapons away from Iran and containing a nuclear North Korea "maximum pressure" - a tough-talking, sanction-heavy policy designed to force adversaries into compliance. Trump's f…

It is increasingly clear that Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ campaign against Iran is effective and has damaged Iran's economy, particularly the energy, shipping, and financial sectors. Oil exports have dropped from 2.5 million barrels per day in 2018 to only 100…

Perhaps it goes without saying, but the most culturally significant movie of the 2010s is The Avengers. There were many decades of superhero movies before the release of Joss Whedons 2012 box-office behemoth, and the move toward the stylish, ideologically mat…

At this weekend’s Group of Seven summit, French President Emmanuel Macron delivered an important reality check on the war of ideas between the United States and Iran. The bottom line: Tehran is winning. If anyone needed proof, witness Macron’s decision to inv…

Posted August 18, 2019 06:00:00 What's the first day of the week? Are you a fan of Sunday fun-day, do you suffer from the Monday blues? Debate has been raging in Darwin over which day should be the official start to the week after confusion from a Burea…

Marzieh Meshkinis three-part film, The Day I Became a Woman, from 2000, is a masterwork of symbolic cinema; it depicts, with vast imagination, the ordeals faced by women in modern Iranian society. Meshkini reportedly made it as three separate short films, in …

As manager of the Stanford Iran 2040 Project, Pooya Azadi makes a point of tracking Irans economic, environmental and social trends. Recently, he found himself at the center of them. In a May 29 speech, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei accused Azadis resea…

Forty years after the Iranian Revolution, U.S. media coverage of Iran is still so overwhelmingly focused on the countrys fraught relationship with the United States that certain images have become tropes. Stock photographs of chador-clad women; shown in profi…

Political rivalry among Irans various factions is nothing new. Ever since the 1979 revolution and particularly after former President Mohammad Khatamis unexpected electoral victory in 1997, moderate officialsincluding reformists and centrists now associated w…