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Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York City mayoral election in early November 2025, just one year after the shocking return of the gangster-like figure Trump to the U.S. presidency, once again drew global attention and marked an even…

زهران ممدانی با پیروزی در انتخابات شهرداری نیویورک در آغاز ماه نوامبر 2025، درست یک سال پس از پیروزی حیرت‌آور گانگستری به نام ترامپ به ریاست جمهوری آمریکا، بار دیگر بازتابی جهانی داشت و رویدادی حیرت‌آورتر را رقم زد. زهران، فرزند دو مهاجر…

In these difficult days for all of Iranians, as Trump’s America, hand in hand with Netanyahu’s Israel, exerts maximum pressure on global media to present the ugliest and most terrifying image of Iran and to organize a new attack against the…

در این روزهای سخت برای همه مردم ایران که آمریکای ِ ترامپ، دست در دست ِ اسرائیل نتانیاهو، تمام فشار خود را بر رسانه‌های جهانی وارد می‌کنند تا زشت‌ترین و مهیب‌ترین چهره را از ایران عرضه کنند وبتوانند حمله جدیدی به ایران را سازمان بدهند؛ در…

In these half-ruined mountains and plains, where here and there the oak trees still stretch their “hands in supplication” toward the sky; among a people bewildered by what is befalling them; amid the clamor of engineers, experts, and…

Behind the worn-out, faded, and crumbling walls, a young girl gazes into a future that does not exist. The men have occupied every space and blend into one another. Life is lost somewhere amid these ambiguous men, hidden behind their…

What makes The Lives of Others both powerful and deeply moving—above all else—is its form: a minimalist form that, within a minimalist content, conveys the terrifying brutality of totalitarianism in East Germany with exceptional subtlety.…

This film, which was originally intended to be directed by Fritz Lang, was eventually made by Robert Wiene due to various factors—chief among them, the specific historical moment and sociopolitical atmosphere in which it was produced and…

When Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans were first exhibited in 1962, they provoked ridicule and scandal rather than even distant admiration. The display seemed to speak more of a “non-art” than of any legitimate artistic expression. Yet…

Luchino Visconti was born into an aristocratic and highly cultured family in Italy and rose to become one of the country’s greatest filmmakers. In addition to his work in cinema, Visconti was also an accomplished musician, theatre director,…