Sahar Tabar, born Fatemeh Khishvand, is a young Iranian woman who gained international attention for her eerie, zombie-like ...

This is Niaz, one of the five Valiat women that make up Sanam Mahloudji’s breathless, overwhelming, multigenerational family epic The Persians. It is a rare moment of reflection on the current ...

The women in Tehran-born Sanam Mahloudji’s debut novel The Persians — longlisted for this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction — know this very intimately. In a dream, one of them is ...