MERSAD: Growing Sunflowers in the Dark

Music • TPM Editorial Team

Yung Trio: Louder than the missiles

When the world outside gets louder, Yung Trio turns up the music. Inside the Tehran band's colourful, chaotic and relentlessly upbeat world.

Art • TPM Editorial Team

Duran is opening new pathways for Iranian art

Over 200 artists, 600 works and a new way forward. Duran Art Projects is bringing Iran’s independent art scene to international audiences, without the middlemen.

Culture • TPM Editorial Team

Two paths, one culture: Finding dance in Tehran

TPM sits down with Elika and Emad to talk about finding their own voice through freestyle and growing alongside a culture doing the same.

Music • TPM Editorial Team

‘Kiss the Sun,’ then kiss it back

From psychedelic Iranian rock to bedroom pop, Asal is pulling inspiration from everywhere she's called home. We spent a day in London talking music, memory and…

Music • TPM Editorial Team

MERSAD: Growing Sunflowers in the Dark

Culture • TPM Editorial Team

Night King: Fuelling Tehran’s underground culture

Art • TPM Editorial Team

Aabee Bleue: Letting the work find its audience

Art • TPM Editorial Team

Elika Hedayat: From Utopia to Nowhere-Land