Memoirs · S. Rouzbeh · 6 September 2026The Last Day: Remembering Tania Abbasi
A remembrance of Tania Abbasi, a young woman who loved life and animals, and of the love that endures in her mother's grief and in Papi's waiting.
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Memoirs · S. Rouzbeh · 6 September 2026
Stories · S. Rouzbeh · 5 September 2026The Windows That Wept
Amid shattered windows and the smoke of an explosion, a frightened girl asks her father why people wage war, and whether life could ever be free of it.
Memoirs · S. Rouzbeh · 4 September 2026The Last Day: Yousef Miri — Twenty Minutes from Home
Eighteen-year-old Yousef Miri tells his mother he will be home in twenty minutes. This account follows the waiting, the news his family received, and the everyday objects through which his mother remembers him.
Memoirs · S. Rouzbeh · 31 August 2026The Last Day: Aref Barati — ‘History Will Judge Us’
S. Rouzbeh reconstructs Aref Barati's last day, his final public words, and the mourning that kept his name alive, while acknowledging what cannot be known about his final moments.
Stories · S. Rouzbeh · 29 August 2026The Last Day: Remembering Amir Mohammad Hatami
A mother searches for her eighteen-year-old son for twenty days. Drawing on her published words, photographs and memories, S. Rouzbeh recounts Amir Mohammad Hatami's life and the grief left with his mother and sister, with literary reconstruction where details are unavailable.
Stories · S. Rouzbeh · 27 August 2026A Wound in the Heart
After their son's death, a mother and father carry on with the smallest rituals of daily life, each one revealing an absence that time cannot heal.
A Wound in the Heart
After their son's death, a mother and father carry on with the smallest rituals of daily life, each one revealing an absence that time cannot heal.
Stories · S. Rouzbeh · 12 January 2026Warm Bread, the Smell of Smoke
A police officer comes home from the protests carrying the smell of smoke. His daughter's questions force him to confront his orders and decide where he will stand the next day.
The Windows That Wept
Amid shattered windows and the smoke of an explosion, a frightened girl asks her father why people wage war, and whether life could ever be free of it.
The Angel of Water
In drought-stricken Khuzestan, Raha leaves a cracked plastic cup by her bed and waits for angels to fill it. Her hope lives alongside her parents' struggle to find safe water.
Stories · S. Rouzbeh · 11 December 2025The Angel of Water
In drought-stricken Khuzestan, Raha leaves a cracked plastic cup by her bed and waits for angels to fill it. Her hope lives alongside her parents' struggle to find safe water.
A Public Execution
A mother and her five-year-old son encounter a public hanging. Afterwards, the family confronts the fear and nightmares that remain.
A Morsel of Bread
A border porter leaves home before dawn to earn his family's bread. Through the long hours of waiting, his wife and child discover the human cost behind a brief report of a kolbar's death.