Not only was Bahman Jalali one of Iran’s leading photographers, but also a writer, publicist, historian, teacher, museum founder, and beyond.

In more than 40 years, Jalali documented the 1979 Iranian revolution, the Iran-Iraq war, as well as the post-war reconstruction years.

Written by S. Mostofi, Cemetery of Dreams is a political thriller novel set in the wake of the 1979 revolution and the hostage crisis. Mostofi was born and raised in Tehran, Iran and was the the first in her family to immigrate to the United States.

BY MAHBOD SERAJI As the 40th day of Neda’s death was commemorated in Iran a few days ago, and [I learned] that a staggering number of 4,000 people were detained in protests that followed June’s disputed presidential election, I was reminded of my years there as a high school student just before the Islamic Revolution [...]

Thirty years after the Iranian Islamic revolution comes a new novel, My Persian Girl, which describes the momentous events in 1979 through the eyes of an Englishman, involved in a dangerous relationship with the wife of one of the Shah of Iran’s senior secret police officers Swirling unseen currents of religious, ethnic and social tensions [...]

Thirty years after the Iranian Islamic revolution comes a new novel, My Persian Girl, which describes the momentous events in 1979 through the eyes of an Englishman, involved in a dangerous relationship with the wife of one of the Shah of Iran’s senior secret police officers