With the people of Iran now targeted by the goons currently running the United States and Israel, Donald Trump’s recent and ...

Late Iranian director Bahram Beyzai's revered classic "Bashu: The Little Stranger" (1985) is soon to be re-released in North ...

Ideas such as identity as an illusion and journey as a means of devotion appear throughout much of Kiarostami’s work. In his finest film, 1997’s devastatingly simple but mesmerizing Taste of Cherry, ...

A new book by UC Santa Barbara’s Mona Damluji examines an unexpected intersection of culture and industry: the relationship between documentary filmmaking and the petroleum industry in the Middle East ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

In India, Iranian cinema has a large viewership because at it's heart, cinema from this land is humanist. That apart, Iranian ...

Archival photograph on the back cover of 'Pipeline Cinema: The Cultural Infrastructure of Oil Extraction in Iran and Iraq.' (UC Press, 2025) by Mona Damluji (Courtesy photo) A new book by UC Santa ...