One Day reveals Iran's gridlock and anxiety

For a moment last June, America's fascination with Iran shifted from nuclear to Twitter. The San Francisco–based microblogging company's role in Tehran's post-election protests…

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Iran So Far Away

What’s going on over there? We’ve seen so many Iranians, angrily marching in the streets, getting pelted and baton-whipped and killed and arrested —…

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The Song of Sparrows

The direct appeals of his melodramatic groundswells have long made Oscar-nominated Iranian director Majid Majidi a dismissed old-school counterpart to Abbas Kiarostami and Jafar…

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The 'Land of the Lost

Drawn from Superbad director Greg Mottola’s own experiences working at a ramshackle suburban amusement park in the 1980s, Adventureland feels at once personal and…

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Iran Away

Iran is ground zero for poetry. Sure, Italy has a good poetic reputation, world-historically speaking, but how you gonna beat the cradle of civilization?…

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