How Smart is the Card?
Iranian motorists voice their hopes and fears for the new fuel rationing cards. |
Seven Women, Seven Perspectives
Seven women photographers on women in Iran today. |
Gordafarid, the First Woman Storyteller
How story-telling turned a woman into a fighter. |
Hassan Sarbakhshian's Photographs
Weddings in contemporary Iran: portrait of an era. |
The Friend of the Caspian Deer
Self-portrait of documentary film-maker Kioumars Derambakhsh. |
Homage to Rumi
Everyone knows about Rumi – except the people of his native land. |
Iranian Fashion with World Appeal
Traditional Iranian styles in a modern world guise. |
Joy of Reading in Tajikistan
Before 1991 Tajiks read more. Life is better but books are in short supply. |
The Politics of Fashion
People dress to express individuality, but in Iran politics imposes uniformity. |
The Sun Castle
Built by Nader Shah, it protected Iran against attack from the north. |
The Fortune Tellers of Afghanistan
How do people in Kabul find out what is going to happen to them? |
From Kabul to Kandahar
Pictures by British visitors to Afghanistan when India was part of their empire. |
The Conscript Teacher
Rather than wear a uniform, Qasem is teaching in a poor village school. |
The Coffee House Artist
Ahmad Khalili paints not on canvas or but on the walls of coffee-houses. |
Goldfish Across the Ocean
In Nowruz Iranians in Toronto buy goldfish, a symbol of life and exuberance. |
The Fishermen of the Caspian
The fish come to the fishermen, not the fishermen to the fish. |
Images of Daily Life from 19th Century Iran
The paintings depict people going about their lives and occupations in Tehran. |
Bahman Rezaie on Death and Humour
Bahman Rezaiee has invented his own style of deathly parody. |
The Berry Picker of Khoshk
Ali lives in Tehran but he returns to Khoshk to harvest the barberries. |
The Carpet Weavers of Qom
The beauty of the carpets hides the pain of those who make them. |
A Day in the life of a Kabul Housewife
Marjon has five children and a husband who earns $60 a month. |
Life Without the Satellite
What happens after the police confiscate the satellite dishes in Tehran? |