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The Past, Present, and Future of Dance in the Muslim World—‘When Arabs Danced’, dir. Jawad Rhalib, 2018

Trailblazing performers from Arabic countries and Iran, as well as glimpses from the pre-hardline cultural landscapes in this tantalizing primer on the role dance plays in Islam-adjacent cultures

January 20th, 2020|Country: Algeria, Belgium, France, Iran, Lebanon, Morocco|

Film: We Are Not Together, dir. Alex Nezam, 2019

An affecting documentary, where the marginalized citizens of Athens—refugees and Greeks alike—speak their minds about the power structures, divisions and injustice that they're fighting against

October 16th, 2019|Country: Afghanistan, Balochistan, Greece, Iran, Mali, Syria, USA|

Music: Mitra Sumara, Tahdig, 2018

An NYC-based avant-garde band fronted by a singer who found her Persian roots reimagines the music of pre-Islamic Revolution Iran: a delectable adventure into Tehran's sexy disco past

September 6th, 2019|Country: Iran, USA|

Film: Born in Evin, dir. Maryam Zaree, 2019

A German filmmaker of Iranian descent learns that she was born in Tehran's notorious Evin prison where her mother was a detainee—and embarks on a quest to find out more about her birth

September 5th, 2019|Country: Austria, Germany, Iran|

Book: Józef Czapski, Inhuman Land: Searching for the truth in Soviet Russia, 1941-1942

The memoirs of an artist and activist who traveled across USSR in search of Polish POWs during WWII, that give an unflinching account of life in the remote corners of the Soviet empire

August 1st, 2019|Country: Iran, Iraq, Poland, Russia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine|

Film: The Nights of Zayandeh-Rood, dir. Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1990

September 12th, 2018|Country: Iran|

Film: Be Like Others, dir. Tanaz Eshaghian, 2008

May 5th, 2018|Country: Iran|