Zanan e Peighambar

Muhammad was the founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet and God's messenger, sent to present and confirm the monotheistic teachings preached previously by Adam, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and other prophets.

Zanan 

Manhood

Laura Dodsworth  a photographer, artist and author, telling powerful, moving human stories for art, editorial and commercial commissions.

Manhood

Asnad

Shapour Bakhtiar was an Iranian politician who served as the last Prime Minister of Iran under the Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi. He and his secretary were murdered in his home in Suresnes, near Paris by agents of the Islamic Republic

Asnad

Fry

Lisa Nicole Brennan-Jobs s an American writer. She is the daughter of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Chrisann Brennan.

Fry 

Handmaid Tale

Margaret Eleanor Atwood CC OOnt FRSC FRSL (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, inventor, teacher and environmental activist. 

Tale

Haji Agha

Best known for his novel The Blind Owl, he was one of the earliest Iranian writers to adopt literary modernism in their career.

Haji

Ria

Saidi Sirjani was a disillusioned supporter of the Islamic Revolution who used satirical and allegorical stories to criticize the Islamic Republic for what he saw as its "authoritarianism, religious hypocrisy, and obtrusive meddling in people's personal lives

Ria

Madineh

Frood Fouladvand was an Iranian monarchist, and founder of the group Kingdom Assembly of Iran.

Madineh

Shah

Chronicles the events leading to the fall of the last reigning monarch of the Peacock Thorne, detailing the excesses of his court, the rise of the Ayatollah, and his addiction and life as refugee

Shah

Khoda

In monotheistic thought, God is conceived of as the supreme being, creator deity, and principal object of faith.

Khoda

Gozaresh

The victims included more than 80 writers, translators, poets, political activists, and ordinary citizens, and were killed by a variety of means—car crashes, stabbings, shootings in staged robberies, injections with potassium to simulate heart attack—in what some believe was an attempt to avoid connection between them

Gozaresh

Why I Am Not a Muslim

A Muslim is someone who follows or practices Islam, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion. Muslims consider the Quran, their holy book, to be the verbatim word of God as revealed to the Islamic prophet and messenger Muhammad.

Muslim 

Ketab e Mohammad

Muslims believe that the Quran was verbally revealed by God to the final Prophet Muhammad through the archangel Gabriel (Jibril), gradually over a period of approximately 23 years, beginning on 22 December 609 CE

Quran

IRIB

Iran adopted it after the 1979 Iranian Revolution that overthrew the Pahlavi dynasty. Afghanistan adopted it in 2004 after the fall of the Taliban government. Despite having similar names the countries differ greatly in their governments and laws.

IRIB

Hajj Sayyah

Mirza Mohammad Ali better known as Hajj Sayyah "the traveler", 1836–1925), was a famous Iranian American world traveler and political activist.

Sayyah

Why We Left Islam

Islam  is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion teaching that there is only one God (Allah) and that Muhammad is the messenger of God.

Islam

Nader Shah

Nader Shah was born in the fortress of Dastgerd into the Qereqlu clan of the Afshars, a semi-nomadic Turkic Qizilbash tribe settled in the northern valleys of Khorasan, a province in the northeast of the Persian Empire.

NaderShah

Khomeini

Sayyid Ruhollah Mūsavi Khomeini; (24 September 1902 – 3 June 1989), known in the Western world as Ayatollah Khomeini,was an Iranian Shia Islam religious leader and politician

Khomeini

Naghoftei'hay az Shieh

The term for the first time was used at the time of Muhammad. At present, the word refers to the Muslims who believe that the leadership of the community after Muhammad belongs to Ali and his successors.

Shia

A Halal Guide

Two years ago, I was congratulating a young Muslimah on her engagement. She was thrilled about starting married life and you could see the happiness emanating from her as everyone gave her their best wishes.

Halal

"Khandan E Khomeini" By Mehdi Shamshiri

Sayyid Ruhollah Mūsavi Khomeini known in the Western world as Ayatollah Khomeini, was an Iranian Shia Muslim religious leader and politician

Khomeini

"Mehdi Bia" By LotfAllah Roozbehani

According to the Shia, the Mahdi belongs to Muhammad's Ahl al-Bayt. He will be a descendant of Ali, Fatimah, Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin, Hasan al-Askari. He will be the twelfth Imam of the Imams of the ahl al-Bayt. His life will be prolonged.

Mehdi 

Vapasin Roozhay Mohammad

Muhammad was the founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet and God's messenger, sent to present and confirm the monotheistic teachings preached previously by Adam, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and other prophets

Mohammad  

Raz

Islam is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion teaching that there is only one God and that Muhammad is the messenger of God.

Raz

Fahsha Dar Rasht

Rasht is the capital city of Gilan Province, Iran. As of the 24 October 2011 census, its population was 639,951. Rasht is the largest city on Iran's Caspian Sea coast.

Rasht

Sazman Jasoosi Allah

Hassan Abbasi, also known as David Abbasi or Siavash Awesta, is a Persian-French writer, journalist, and Islamologist. He lives in Paris and was born to Zahra Mirzai and Sheikh Abbas Abbasi.

Allah

Khonyagar Dar Khoon

On August 8, 1992 Farrokhzad's body was found in the kitchen of his apartment in Bonn, Germany after neighbours reported barking by his two dogs. Farrokhzad had been killed violently, having been stabbed repeatedly in the face and upper torso.

Khonyagar

Khar Name

Mahammad hasan khan Haji Ali khan was born in 1843 in Maragha. He was one of the great personalities of the Iranian state. 

Khar

Bache´Porro´ha

His most famous work My Uncle Napoleon, was published in 1973 and earned him national acclaim and was accoladed by Iranian and international critics alike as a cultural phenomenon. 

Bacheh

My Uncle Napoleon

My Uncle Napoleon is a coming of age novel by Iranian author Iraj Pezeshkzad published in Tehran in Persian in 1973.

Napoleon

Din; Esperm E Moghadas Shodeh

The Abrahamic religions, also referred to collectively as Abrahamism, are a group of Semitic-originated religious communities of faith that claim descent from the practices of the ancient Israelites and the worship of the God of Abraham

Din

"Mohammad" By AbdolAli Beheshti

Muhammad was the founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet and God's messenger, sent to present and confirm the monotheistic teachings preached previously by Adam, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and other prophets

Mohammad

"Iranian Jokes" By Parviz Khatibi

Parviz Khatibi was born on May 18, 1923 in Tehran, Iran. He was a writer and director, known for The Grudge (1954), Cheers for Aunty (1952) and Pishevari's Uprising (1954). He died in 1993 in Los Angeles, California, USA

Iranian Jokes

Se Shayyad

D'Holbach was known for his generosity, often providing financial support discreetly or anonymously to his friends, amongst them Diderot. It is thought that the virtuous atheist Wolmar in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse is based on d'Holbach.

Shayyad

Peyman Zanashoi

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a socially or ritually recognised union between spouses that establishes rights and obligations between those spouses, as well as between them and any resulting biological or adopted children and affinity (in-laws and other family through marriage).

Peiman

Maghlatehaye Rohanion

In Shia Islam the guidance of clergy and keeping such a structure holds a great importance. The clergy structure depends on the branch of Shi'ism is being referred to.

Maghlateh

Gharne 20

He was born in Hamadan, the son of Hajj Sayed Abolghasam Kordestani; he learned French in the Ecole d'Alliance, and moved to Istanbul for a while. He is particularly famous for writing the opera Rastakhiz Iran (Resurrected Iran), which was a reflection of his patriotic spirit.

Gharn 20 

Iran in 113 years ago

Ernst Hoeltzer (1835-1911) was a German engineer and one of the pioneer photographers in Iran in the 19th century. He came to this country during the rule of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar and spent about twenty years of his life in Isfahan. 

Iran

Boof e Koor

The Blind Owl was written during the oppressive latter years of Reza Shah's rule (1925–1941). It was originally published in a limited edition in Bombay, during Hedayat's year-long stay there in 1937, stamped with "Not for sale or publication in Iran."

Boof 

Zaratosht nameh

There is no consensus on the dating of Zoroaster, the Avesta gives no direct information about it, while historical sources are conflicting.

Nameh

Sumer In Qoran

Sumer is the earliest known civilization in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia, modern-day southern Iraq, during the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze ages, and arguably the first civilization in the world with Ancient Egypt and the Indus Valley.

Sumer

Akhlagh

The Qajars were a Turkmen tribe that held ancestral lands in present-day Azerbaijan, which then was part of Iran. 

Iranian 

Amazon

The Amazon River, usually abbreviated to The Amazon, in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and either the longest or second longest.

Amazon

Sonaye Zaferanieh

Alireza Nourizadeh is an Iranian scholar, literary figure, journalist, political activist and an expert on Iranian contemporary history.

Sona

Qajar & Pahlavi Dynasty

The Qajar rulers were members of the Karagöz or "Black-Eye" sect of the Qajars, who themselves were members of the Qajars (tribe) or "Black Hats" lineage of the Oghuz Turks.

Pics

Qajar & Pahlavi Dynasty

The Qajar rulers were members of the Karagöz or "Black-Eye" sect of the Qajars, who themselves were members of the Qajars (tribe) or "Black Hats" lineage of the Oghuz Turks.

Pics

Reza Shah

Reza Shah Pahlavi ( 15 March 1878 – 26 July 1944) was the Shah of Iran from 15 December 1925 until he was forced to abdicate by the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran on 16 September 1941.

Reza Shah

Toope Morvari

Sadegh Hedayat was an Iranian writer, translator and intellectual. Best known for his novel The Blind Owl, he was one of the earliest Iranian writers to adopt literary modernism in their career

Toop

Ā’ishah

‘Ā’ishah bint Abī Bakr was one of Muhammad's wives. In Islamic writings, her name is thus often prefixed by the title "Mother of the Believers", per the description of Muhammad's wives in the Qur'an.

Ā’ishah

Rospian Sodazaheye Man

Gabriel García Márquez was born on 6 March 1927in Aracataca, Colombia, to Gabriel Eligio García and Luisa Santiaga Márquez Iguarán.

Memories