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  • Five Poems from "The Forbidden"
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    "The Forbidden" Poets of Iran, New Anthology
    Despite the Islamic Republic Iran's use of any and all available methods to quell dissent—including propaganda poems, novels and films—in a country that even the uneducated bricklayers recite poems by heart, the voice of the poets cannot be silenced. Like rain it will seep into every crevice and feed the seedlings. In Iran's Green Movement we see signs of saplings that have broken through pavements and are growing fast in the streets and squares.
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    "Tolstoy in Riyadh" Reviewed
    an American teacher from the South finds comfort in traditional Saudi culture
    When the average American thinks of Saudi Arabia, the words "oil" or "ARAMCO" or "burqa" may come to mind. And if Americans have a hard time culturally relating to countries in the Middle East, it would take a college course to understand Saudi Arabia. Luckily, no expensive college class is needed. Chris Cryer's Tolstoy in Rihadh is a brief, readable account of her experience as a Western woman in Saudi Arabia in the 1980s.
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    "The Art of Stepping Through Time" poem
    "The Art of Stepping Through Time" is a poem from the eponymous collection by H. E. Sayeh and translated by Chad Sweeney and Mojdeh Marashi...
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    "Red Dawn" poem
    Tehran, 1971
    "Red Dawn" is a poem from "The Art of Stepping Through Time" by H. E. Sayeh and translated by Chad Sweeney and Mojdeh Marashi...
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    "House of Ghazal" poem
    Tehran, Summer 1975
    "House of Ghazal" is a poem from "The Art of Stepping Through Time" by H. E. Sayeh and translated by Chad Sweeney and Mojdeh Marashi.
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    November/December Poetry Selection from Sholeh Wolpé
    "The Art of Stepping Through Time" By H. E. Sayeh
    Hot off the press, poetry editor Sholeh Wolpé introduces Levantine Review readers to "The Art of Stepping Through Time" by H.E. Sayeh. The volume is the fruit of eight years collaboration between Mojdeh Marahsi, an Iranian poet and artist, and Chad Sweeney, an American poet.
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    Autumn Reads: Levantine Recommended Titles
    new anthologies, history and fiction provide plenty to think and dream about...
    From the short stories in Cihan Kaan's "Halal Pork" to cinema tales examined in Ella Shohat's revised new edition of "Israeli Cinema" to Roya Hakakian's thriller "Assassins of the Turquoise Palace," there's plenty to dig into this fall.
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    September/October Poetry Selection: Roger Sedarat
    author of the recent collection "Dear Regime: Letters To The Islamic Republic"
    What grabbed me at first was the title, but then picking up Roger Sedarat's Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic, I found this collection contains 71 pages of courageous, and at times shocking poems. Some of them are side-splittingly funny, as in a poem titled "Athletes Make the Best Persian Pornography." The poem opens with: Dear Regime: Letters to the Iranian RepublicDear Regime: Letters to the Iranian RepublicReza Goes Bowling. Banned in Iran as a sport for its obvious sexual suggestions, watch close-ups of this young man (who looks very much like a Persian singer in this blue sequined suit) putting three fingers in a red ball.
  • Levantine Book/DVD Drive for New Resource Library
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