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

SELECTED 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 

2008              Thirty Years of Solitude Asia House London UK 

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

 Thirty Years of Solitude, University of Cambridge, UK 

 2005            Duomo Assicurazioni, Caserta, Italy                               

 

SPOKEN WORD AND PRESENTATION

PERFORMANCE LECTURE: Power Of a Cliché

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 

                     Asia House London 2008

 

 

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


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