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2025-08-02 20:19
By Kurosh Alyani Iranian cultural critic
Art against erasure: witnessing Gaza’s unseen pain
TEHRAN- A mother—whether in Norway or Nigeria—switches off the television, refusing the unbearable sight: a grieving mother in Gaza holding her child, starved to death. The image pierces too deep, shattering fragile calm. In that moment, denial shields her heart; the world’s pain presses too close. Yet the silence carries its own weight—a quiet witness to sorrow too vast to hold.
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2025-07-20 20:24
By Kurosh Alyani Iranian cultural critic
From the flame to Michelangelo, and from Michelangelo to the mouth harp: The struggle for human art
TEHRAN – Before the accumulation of colonial wealth and the rise of institutional gatekeeping, art existed in forms that were raw, localized, and intimately bound to lived experience. It emerged through craft, ritual, oral expression, and communal aesthetics—untethered from formal complexity or market logic.