Journalism;

 

News production for western Media in Iran 1996-2003 

Businessweek,Newsday NYC USA,Toronto Star Toronto Canada,Guardian London UK,

Frankfurter Algemeiner Zeitung  Framkfurt Germany

Sky News London UK BBC World Service Radio London UK, various programs

BBC Television: Correspondent, Hardtalk.

RTE Irish Television Dublin Ireland 

Written Work 

Slate .com's  Slate Diary, Salon.com, Ms. Magazine, Newsday, The Guardian, Toronto Star

US News and World Report, BusinessWeek, Christian Science Monitor, LA Times, 

Frakfurter Algemeiner Zeitung


A R T

 SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008            15 minutes - Etemad Gallery 

2007             Peace Chador- Internet spam exhibition

2006             Chador-dadar Etemad Gallery, Tehran, Iran                                         

                    Chadornama- Al Riwaq Gallery, Bahrain 

2005             Chadornama- Etemad Gallery, Tehran, Iran 

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011              Staging Identity Performance and Irony in Contemporary Middle Eastern Photography

                      Gallery Kashya Hildebrand

2008             Thirty Years of Solitude Asia House London UK 

2007             Transform-Nation, Elipse Gallery, Washington DC, USA 

2007             Thirty Years of Solitude, University of Cambridge, UK 

2005             Duomo Assicurazioni, Caserta, Italy                               

 

SPOKEN WORD AND PRESENTATION

PERFORMANCE LECTURE: Power Of a Cliché

2011            University of Warwick UK

2009            Kulturfestival Frauensperspektiven. Karlsruhe Germany

2008            Barbican Centre, London, UK 

2007            Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, USA

                    Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, USA

                    Bowery Poetry Club, New York City, USA

                    Busboys and Poets, Washington DC, USA


LECUTURE:   Persian Politesse and the art of camouflaged expression 

2008               Asia House London 

 

 

Radio: Presenter for BBC World Service Patterns of Faith- Ashura Broadcast 2001

Film Narration  ‘And Along Came A Spider’ by Maziar Bahari 2002

 

Digital Installation:

2009             AKSbazi.com

Concept for a digital space where Iranians can create their own image through the nuances of their own culture and psyche through the use of photographs.


PUBLICATIONS:

-The Slate Diaries 

Selected diaries from Slate published as part of a book Public Affairs NYC 2000

-Religion and politics in Modern Iran - Translation of Mehrangiz Kar in a selection of writings

published by IB Tauris 2005

-Patterns in Art Photos from Chadornama published in a history of art book by Dr. Annette Tietenburg Germany 2005 

-The Berlin Journal Fall 2009 edition 

- Different Sames: New Perspectives in Contemporary Iranian Art 

by Hossein Amirsadeghi and Hamid Keshmirshekan, July 2009 

-Contemporary Art in the Middle East, 

by Paul Sloman, June 2009