Brown University Persian Resource Center

A forum for engagement and discussion.

[scshimizu]

Botanical Garden, Dushanbe, Tajikistan 25 August, 2013 

[brownpersian-blog]

xo

never thought I would say this but...I miss the Dush.

[pomegranatediaspora-deactivated]

In Farsi if you say you want to eat someone’s liver, it means you adore them. It sounds so weird when you translate it but it’s so natural in Farsi. People get really creative in expressing how they are going to consume your liver.

"I want to saute your liver with browned garlic and parsley and a reduced mustard sauce and delicately enjoy it with a side of Gouda and Pinot Grigio"

"I’d like to barbeque your liver and eat it over the fire wrapped in sangak bread."

[brownpersian-blog]

But I mean, really. It's enough to make a girl hungry.

[brownpersian-blog]

Katherine goes to Van.

[sultaneh]

AFP: Nasim Seyamak

[brownpersian-blog]

Patrick goes to the Pamirs.

[reorientmag]

Sadly, the authorities are against this art form, for the same reason that they oppose things like men’s ties – they think it is a sign of Westernisation. They shouldn’t worry, because many customers actually request tattoos with Iranian elements, like images of Zarathustra, Achamenid soldiers, Faravahar symbols, Nastaliq calligraphy, and even images from The Book of Kings

[brownpersian-blog]

oh! a fellow seattlite :D i'm sure your city misses you too.

[brownpersian-blog]

!سالام کترین جون I hope your summer has been, and continues to be wonderful! I'm at the UW Madison Persian program right now and I was wondering, do you still have access to the Harry Potter books in Persian? !مرسی -Bethany

همه چیز اینجاست! share with your classmates :)   

[smooodbh14]

[brownpersian-blog]

lol

[oasis-mag]

Harfha by Iranian artist Afagh Morrowation.

[notesfromtheorient-deactivated2]

farsglish <3 #2

zanjir said: omg sefid people always ask if i draw mine on and azizam i don’t need to draw anything

ya its khandedar that growing up i was made fun of for my abroos and now that vogue says “bushy" is in hameh wants some of this

[notesfromtheorient-deactivated2]

farsglish <3

dokhtar sefids always come up to me and ask “where did you get your eyebrows done" as if they can ever achieve my level of abroo perfection

[androphilia]

لباس سنتی گیلان

[propaedeuticist]

roof-streets of Masuleh, Iran

[artinparsi]

[brownpersian-blog]

Tehran University 1977 (دانشگاه تهران - زمستان سال ١٣٥٥)

[kourtneykumdashian]

Tehran 1937- Tehran 1971

[reorientmag]

Esfahan chic (1955)

[brownpersian-blog]

I've been wanting a fur collar like that for, quite literally, years.