Hessam Emami
* Hessam Emami is a translator and journalist. He has written on diplomacy, society and literature in both English and Persian since 2008.
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Has Trump Tied the Knot between Farhadi’s the Salesman and Oscars?
On January 24, Asghar Farhadi’s latest feature, The Salesman, already boasting two Cannes Film awards for best screenplay and best actor ...
Iran’s First Post-Revolution Female Minister ... and President?: About Marzieh Vahid-Dastjerdi
Iran’s Guardian Council has signaled it may alter a masculine definition of statesmen that impedes presidential campaigns by women for ...
Farewell Thee Bittersweet 2016!
(Picture: Young girl standing in line for parliamentary ballots of February 2016.) The year 2016 was one of bittersweet developments, from ...
Sympathy and Anger in Iran after Media Publish Report on ’Grave-Sleepers’
Moderate or pro-reform administrations go hand in hand with freedom of the press, not only because they advocate such values, ...
Arba’een the New Shia Hajj or an Interim Fill-In?
On Thursday, Fars News Agency (FNA) quoted Iraqi interior ministry spokesman Brigadier General Saad Maan as saying about one million ...
Controversy over FATF Is Back: Who is the real Pinocchio?
(Front page of Principlist newspaper Vatan-e Emrooz, calling FATF sword of Damocles.) International anti-money-laundering standards body, the Financial Action Task Force ...
Transition for Three: Construction of Chabahar Port brings much-needed leeway for Tehran, Delhi and Kabul
(Chabahar route towards Kabul and Mumbai. Source: Daily Mail) On Sunday, Afghanistan’s Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani arrived in Tehran to discuss ...
Inside Iran, a Diversity of Opinions Emerging over Hijab
On Sunday July 10, 2016, the director of Iran’s Women Basij Society, Minoo Aslani, told a press conference that Iran ...