Under Eastern Skies
"Enemy...terrorism...nuclear bomb...war." These words are often used by American media to describe Iran. The image the media presents is often hazy, incomplete, and distorted. The political and military aspects of my country are covered mainly in a negative light.

In Under Eastern Eyes (I have adopted the name from the novel Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad), I will write about those topics which American media either cannot or does not want to talk about. The emphasis will be on social and cultural aspects of Iran although, out of necessity, I will talk about politics, despite my despair.
Yaghoub Yadali, born in 1970, is a writer and television director. His first work of fiction, the short-story collection Sketches in the Garden, was published in 1997. It was followed in 2001 by Probability of Merriment and Mooning, which was named book of the year by the Writers and Critics Award. His first novel, The Rituals of Restlessness, won the 2004 Golshiri Foundation Award for the best novel of the year and was named as one of the ten best novels of the decade by the Press Critics Award. He has also published many articles and reviews of literature and cinema in newspapers and magazines in Iran. 
  • Obama and Merkel
    Apricot Diplomacy
    by  / October 8, 2015

    The famous “apricot” story published on Humans of New York is a fitting metaphor for the refugee crisis in Europe, writes columnist Yaghoub Yadali.

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  • The Day Everyone Was Happy
    by  / August 3, 2015

    Is there hope for for Iran’s foreign relations? Columnist Yaghoub Yadali examines the historic Iran nuclear agreement and considers past, present, and future relations between Iran and the United States.

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  • A Question
    by  / March 25, 2015

    The two Iranian political parties rivaling for control of the presidency are, in form but not in content, similar to the contentions between the Democratic and Republican parties in the United States.

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