A unique look at how cinema shaped the cosmopolitan society in Tehran through cultural exchanges between Iran and the world.

From popular and 'New Wave' pre-revolutionary films of Fereydoon Goleh and Abbas Kiarostami to post-revolutionary films of Mohsen Makhmalbaf, the Iranian cinema

A new reading of Ali Shariati's intellectual legacy on Iranian political discourse and concepts of Islam and modernity.

The Discovery of Iran examines the history of Iranian nationalism afresh through the life and work of Taghi Arani, the founder of Iran's first Marxist journal,

Since cosmopolitanism has often been conceived as a tenet of 'Western civilization' that emanates from its Enlightenment-based origins in a humanist age of mode