Folkcal Fraim 1
But where do faces come from — the places before us, the places before ageless poetry and un-aimed photography or have they not come yet?
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Rembrandt Redux
18 months, 500 hours, 148 million pixels and 186,000 data points. “All that work, for this?”
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Why I Became an Iranian Writer
This is how my flesh came to understand the value of a single word…
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Running in Place
Was Progress, the ambition of a society to, well, improve itself, only a brief historical phenomenon that has faded like the Cheshire Cat, leaving us only a jaundiced grin (or a yellow vest)?…
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Hatred of the Written Word
Hatred of the written word has taken hold of state institutions— institutions of security and of executive power…
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Target Practice (Part 2)
How the people we came to help (the Afghans) could benefit from our being in Zombalay proved utterly elusive…
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Home From Afar
As we spoke, I could hear the buzzing of drones and explosions in the background. The dark music woke hideous memories…