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 …
When Two Worlds Refuse to Separate: Ali Boustan and the Discipline of Loving the Process Some episodes of Cozy Corner unfold as interviews. Some become lessons. And then there are rare moments that feel more like long walks through a person’s inner landscape. The conversation with Ali Boustan belongs to that last category. It is …
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