She Memorized Her Lines Before She Could Read Tarlan Parvaneh on Growing Up on Camera, Living Without a Script, and Becoming Yourself When Everyone Already Thinks They Know You — Cozy Corner with Hossein Nasiri, Episode 90 She is twenty-eight years old and has twenty-five years of professional experience. That sentence needs to be read …
When the Wrapping Is Beautiful — What Comes Out of It? Reza Daryakenari on Staged Photography, Painting Without a Canvas, and Building a World Before You Shoot It — Cozy Corner with Hossein Nasiri, Episode 89 You can admire something and still ask: so what? Reza Daryakenari describes reaching exactly that moment — receiving compliments, …
If You Lift the Corner of the Carpet Ali Bahmani on Origami, Mathematics, and What Happens When You Pick Up a Sheet of Paper — Cozy Corner with Hossein Nasiri, Episode 88 There are no shortcuts. You have to go through all those paths. You have to try all the different combinations as much as …
My Feet Finally Touched the Ground Sara Shahrokhi on Lending Instead of Giving, and What Rural Iran Taught Her About Herself — Cozy Corner with Hossein Nasiri, Episode 87 For three years, Sara Shahrokhi ran a volunteer charity alongside her full-time job, watching the number of families under her care grow from sixty or seventy …
The Button Is Still in a Human Hand Hamed Vahdatinasab on Six Million Years of Creativity, and the First Threshold We Cannot See Past — Cozy Corner with Hossein Nasiri, Episode 86 Right now, the button that could start a nuclear war sits in a human hand. Hamed Vahdatinasab is not making a moral claim …
The Cat Slips Through the Gap in the Door Gorbe on Masks, Freedom, and the Street as a Living Story — Cozy Corner with Hossein Nasiri, Episode 85 A cat that survives the street has a particular set of instincts: it checks everything, waits, watches, and then moves in one motion. It slips through a …
The Anatomy of Creativity — Mitra Shahsavand on Designing Through Crisis There is a particular kind of courage in sitting down to create when your world is quietly falling apart. For Mitra Shahsavand — brand designer, communication strategist, and one of the most thoughtful voices in Iranian brand identity — that courage was not chosen; …
The House You Don’t Leave Until the Last Note Kian Pourtorab on Solitude, Reinvention, and Making Music Without a Map — Cozy Corner with Hossein Nasiri, Episode 83 Music, Kian Pourtorab says, is something you own only while it’s still on your computer. The moment you give it to anyone else — a film edit, …
The Software We Left Behind After the Revolution, Omidreza Kazemi says, the structure remained. The buildings stayed. The Hilton in Isfahan, the big hotels in Tehran — the hardware was all there. What disappeared was the software: the managers, the mindset, the accumulated knowledge of how to actually run a modern hospitality operation. And what …
Where the Hat Ends and the Story Begins Fereshteh Haddad & Arash Akand of Farmuk — Cozy Corner with Hossein Nasiri, Episode 81 There is a Greek myth about three women who spin the thread of every human life. The instrument in their hands — the tool that gives each thread its length and weight …
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