Politics becomes a part of a writer's working life. The writer's protagonists are born in the context of the feelings that this atmosphere evokes. Ho….

Democracy is the product of human thought and reasoning. It's true that philosophers and thinkers have always imagined a utopia in which everything i….

The fact that I'm a woman is as important to my work as a poet as the fact that Ahmad Shāmlu was a man was important to his work as a poet. Basically….

No one can create a noteworthy work without knowing the tenets of their own language and literature. Language is renewed but it never changes its ess….

The nightmare of censorship has always cast a shadow over my thoughts. Both under the previous state and under the Islamic state, I have said again a….

Literature rests on language. It is a linguistic art. So it cannot sever its relationship with the past. But it can create new methods and styles tha….

Old I may be, but, given the chance, I will learn..

The more stringent the rules and the more limiting they are, the more the poet and writer is forced to resort to special techniques and intricacies t….

I've stood in long lines, in the rain and under the sun, just to buy a pack of butter or a box of paper napkins. I've seen mothers running after the ….