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Iranian-born American author Navid Sinaki explores forbidden gay love in ‘Medusa of the Roses’

Navid Sinaki speaks to Dheepthika Laurent on arts24 about how much of his own story is echoed in his novel “Medusa of the Roses”. It traces an illicit…

Film show: ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’ critiques Iranian regime • FRANCE 24 English

Director Mohammad Rasoulof had escaped a prison sentence in Iran just days before his latest film screened at the Cannes Film Festival this year. “The Seed of the…