Mahmoud Dowlatabadi’s prizewinning The Colonel, previously banned in his native Iran, may finally see print there in a sign of that nation’s continuing cultural thaw. As reported by the Tehran… Read more »

This week is the 30th anniversary of ALA’s Banned Books week, which is dedicated to ensuring the “availability of all viewpoints to all who wish to read them.” Our own… Read more »

  In the video below, legendary Iranian writer Mahmoud Dowlatabadi discusses the background to his masterpiece, Missing Soluch, and describes why he writes about what he writes about. We post… Read more »

Mahmoud Dowlatabadi’s sprawling epic Missing Soluch has been described as The Grapes of Wrath of Iran and in many ways it is a comparable book. Both books have at their core… Read more »