The Program

Short Film
Written By Salome MC
 

Salome MC is an Iranian-American rapper, producer, multimedia artist, and educator. She is currently based in Austin, working as a multimedia and teaching artist.

 
Kucheh
Letter From the Editor
Letter From the Editor
Elham Khatami
Letter From the Editor
Letter From the Editor
Elham Khatami
Letter From the Editor
Elham Khatami
Divar
Essay
Diba TajAbadi
Divar
Essay
Diba TajAbadi

The walls speak. Now, they are asking me to speak as well.

Essay
Diba TajAbadi
Mémas: memories of my grandmother
Essay
Neda Zahraie
Mémas: memories of my grandmother
Essay
Neda Zahraie

A grandmother, but also something more—the balance, the fixed point one can return to with every turn.

Essay
Neda Zahraie
Origins
Poetry
Nina Kamooei
Origins
Poetry
Nina Kamooei

There’s a pain in the heart as if it’s sore from walking too far past mountains,
looking for another cavity to beat in

Poetry
Nina Kamooei
First Generation
Poetry
Arman Kazemi
First Generation
Poetry
Arman Kazemi

My country, though I wasn’t your birth-child 
you still folded me in 
where I took root

Poetry
Arman Kazemi
Mountain Sonnet to Zal
Poetry
Arman Kazemi
Mountain Sonnet to Zal
Poetry
Arman Kazemi

Tell me your name 
so I can write it in the blank lines between stars

Poetry
Arman Kazemi
مغروض جنگی
Essay
Samir Saeidi سمیر سعیدی
مغروض جنگی
Essay
Samir Saeidi سمیر سعیدی

جنگ که شروع شد، من تقریباً هیچ کاری نکردم جز ماندن. نه قهرمانی در کار بود، نه فرار، نه پناهگاه، نه حتی اضطرابی که بشود اسمش را ترس گذاشت.

Essay
Samir Saeidi سمیر سعیدی
Copy of a copy
Visual Art
Mina Fouladi
Copy of a copy
Visual Art
Mina Fouladi

This body of work navigates the paradox of holding on and letting go, preserving fleeting moments of home while accepting their inevitable disappearance.

Visual Art
Mina Fouladi
Oh Poetry, I said I’m not a poet
Poetry
Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh
Oh Poetry, I said I’m not a poet
Poetry
Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh

I said I’m not a poet.
A writer, but not the poet kind.
I know, I know. It’s strange to hear.

Poetry
Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh
How it all began, somewhere in the middle
Essay
Sarah Kia
How it all began, somewhere in the middle
Essay
Sarah Kia

The act of collecting enables us to reframe context and create an entirely new composition.

Essay
Sarah Kia
سقفمون افسوس و افسوس
Essay
Shima Talebi شیما طالبی
سقفمون افسوس و افسوس
Essay
Shima Talebi شیما طالبی

از ساختمان سفید سنگی که بیرون می‌آیم، لحظه‌ای متوقف می‌شوم. چشم می‌دوزم به برچسب ویزا که وسط گذرنامه‌ام جا خوش کرده.

Essay
Shima Talebi شیما طالبی
Iran
Poetry
Arman Kazemi
Iran
Poetry
Arman Kazemi

Mother who nurtures you 
in one gesture weans you 
and cradles the world. 

Poetry
Arman Kazemi
دفترچه خاطرات من
Visual Art
Shayesteh Farazi
دفترچه خاطرات من
Visual Art
Shayesteh Farazi

با نگاه به عکس‌ها خاطراتی از لحظات آن زمان برایمان تداعی می‌شود که دیگر قابل تکرار نیست ودر واقع این عکس‌ها هستند که آن خاطرات را جاودانه کرده‌اند. در اینجا با تأکید بر همین موضوع لحظه‌هایی از زندگی‌ام را ثبت کرده‌ام که با دیدن آنها می‌توانم خودم را در عکس‌ها پیدا کنم و روزهایی را که سپری کرده‌ام به خاطر آورم

Visual Art
Shayesteh Farazi
Moshaknegari
Essay
Diba TajAbadi
Moshaknegari
Essay
Diba TajAbadi

Lost in the cloud of the internet blackout, a black cloud that has been hanging over the Iranian plateau since January, anything becomes internet.

Essay
Diba TajAbadi
The city I love
Visual Art
Kimia Seifi
The city I love
Visual Art
Kimia Seifi

All throughout the blackout, I would screenshot any picture and video coming out of Iran which sparked familiarity even if I had never been to the area depicted.

Visual Art
Kimia Seifi
The Cypresses Are Not Who You Think They Are
Short Story, Visual Art
Mohammadreza Eslami
The Cypresses Are Not Who You Think They Are
Short Story, Visual Art
Mohammadreza Eslami

It was only January. Ears could hear the seething wind through faintly yellowed cypresses standing starkly in the vast nothingness of the plain that was keeping poppies hidden under layers and layers of white.

Short Story, Visual Art
Mohammadreza Eslami
The Program
Short Film
Salome MC
The Program
Short Film
Salome MC
Short Film
Salome MC
One Was, One Was Not
Essay
Elham Khatami
One Was, One Was Not
Essay
Elham Khatami

I recall the past to untangle the present, to understand how glimpses of possibility and promise can be muddied by forces outside of our control.

Essay
Elham Khatami
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Salome MC

Salome MC is an Iranian-American rapper, producer, multimedia artist, and educator. She is currently based in Austin, working as a multimedia and teaching artist.

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