
Editor’s Note
English and the Iranian Exodus
For those in the Iranian diaspora, 9/11 seemed to compound our pre-existing trauma and our desire to express it…in English. As this issue reflects, we’ve moved on, in various ways.

For those in the Iranian diaspora, 9/11 seemed to compound our pre-existing trauma and our desire to express it…in English. As this issue reflects, we’ve moved on, in various ways.

A photoessay on the boulevard that for more than two decades was the Downtown for the Iranian émigré community in Los Angeles.

Many Iranian officials who’ve studied in the United States have done anything but live up to the human rights–respecting reputation of a Western education.

An industrialist’s vast business network illuminates how Iran’s political right is beholden to clerical and military elites.