There is a particular kind of moral vandalism that only our era could mass-produce: dressing a claim in a photograph, […]

Yesterday, Golestan’s windows learned the oldest lesson in architecture: history isn’t “over,” it just sometimes arrives without taking its shoes

به هنرمندان، خلاقان، و متخصصان میراث فرهنگیِ ایران، و به‌ویژه آنان که زیر فشار، زیر نظارت، زیر اندوه کار می‌کنند،

To the artists, creatives, and heritage professionals of Iran, and especially to those working under pressure, under surveillance, under grief,

Fourteen years before I wrote “Footnotes in the Mist,” I learned what fog feels like when it’s pumped straight into

SILENCE is not a clerical error. It is a position, performed with a straight face, then dressed up as “complexity”

I’m old enough to carry 1979 in my bones. I was a child, but the memory is clean as glass:

قطع ارتباطات در ایران به یک مسئله‌ی حکمرانی می‌انجامد: آیا زبان اخلاقی ایکوم، خودِ این نهاد را نیز متعهد می‌کند؟

Iran’s Communications Shutdown Raises A Governance Question: Does ICOM’s Ethical Language Bind ICOM, Too? I’m writing this in grief. As