A new investigation by RFE/RL and its Persian-language service, Radio Farda, sheds new light on the unsolved murder of Iranian dissident artist Fereydoun Farrokhzad, who was brutally stabbed to death ...

BEIRUT: She was a rebel and a rock star. She lived fast and died young. She was a revolutionary way before the rumblings of a historic rupture could be heard in Iran. She wrote more frankly about sex ...

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In the Western debate over whether Islam is by nature oppressive, what’s clear is how much Islamic oppression falls on its women. Against that oppression has emerged the poetry of Forugh Farrokhzad, ...

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Women’s liberty is at the forefront of Iranian politics. In September Mahsa Amini was arrested for not wearing her hijab correctly and died in police custody; for weeks people occupied the streets and ...

Forough Farrokhzad, trans. from the Persian by Elizabeth Gray. New Directions, $16.95 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-0-8112-3165-7 This excellent assemblage of the late Farrokhzad’s selected work brings ...

Forough Farrokhzad (1935-1967) is known as a leading poetess in the Iranian literary circles. The Busan festival will publish the poems in two separate books entitled “Forough Farrokhzad, the Elder ...