Eternal Questions

Hamed SoleimanTabar is an Iranian poet, writer, and translator, born in 1986 (1365 SH) in Tehran. He has authored three books of poetry and is recognized as an influential figure in contemporary Iranian poetry over the last two decades. Notably, he is also a translator whose work includes the Persian rendition of T.S. Eliot's seminal work, the "Four Quartets." SoleimanTabar's poetry is often characterized by its visual, aphoristic, and philosophical depth, consistently exploring the boundaries between language, art, and existential thought.

Ali Asadollahi is an Iranian poet, translator, and editor based in Tehran. He pursued an M.A. in Persian Language and Literature from the University of Tehran and is the author of six books of poetry in Persian. Over the past two decades, his poems have been widely published in leading Iranian literary journals and anthologies. A permanent member of the Iranian Writers’ Association (est. 1968), he has received several domestic literary honors, including the Iranian Journalists’ Poetry Prize and the Young Poets’ Book of the Year Award. His poetry and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Another Chicago Magazine, Bellingham Review, Blue Unicorn, Columbia Review, Consequence, Denver Quarterly, Diode, Epoch, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Hypertext, The Los Angeles Review, MPT, and others.

Soha Kabiri is an Iranian artist, originally from Tehran. Intrigued from an early age by the creative force, she obtained a Master of Art degree from Tehran University in 2013. Passionate about art, her interest is particularly focused on painting in relation to themes involving sexual identity. Sexual identity is a major controversial topic in her works. It is exacerbated and takes on its full meaning under the impact of her life history as a woman evolving in a patriarchal society. It is through extensive research on gender studies as a vital concept and an aesthetic but also experimental artistic trajectory that Soha Kabiri's work is built and deeply rooted. In her recent works, she attempts to demonstrate the essence of her vision. Through a distortion of lines and forms that demonstrate 1 O years of work and evolution, she expresses her meaning of sexual identity through her paintings, drawings and installations.