A short essay reflecting on the experience of “ranj”, an old Iranian word for a cutting, torturous kind of toil we endure for something we love.

This lyrical and embodied reflection explores soog — the Persian state of burning grief — and the unbreakable bond between land, body, and soul in the Iranian experience. Weaving together mourning, diasporic longing, Rumi, Ferdowsi, and acts of resistance, the essay meditates on homesickness, cultural memory, and the poetic pulse of Iran in times of devastation and uprising.

An academic publication (for the IASR) on the psychoanalytical reading of the ancient Zoroastrian creating story, using Donald Kalsched’s battle for the soul between the Dark and Light Angel of the so-called self-care system.

In times of war and conflict, the opposites constellate in the collective psyche and the moral, social and political duty of each of us is to hold the tension of opposites and to withdraw the projection of evil onto the “barbaric other”. The myth of Kali can teach us during these intense times of war and suffering.

An interview on my views on the practice and tradition of alchemy and my current research at the University of Amsterdam.

A short piece about this year’s Iranian Winter Solstice, Shab-e-Yalda in the midst of the Woman Life Freedom revolution.

An essay on women’s rage as a vehicle of transformation and the #MahsaAmini, female-sparked revolution in Iran.

A comparative essay on the initiatory experience with the Crone in Psyche & Eros and the Cinderella story Mah Pishooni.

A dialogue between Anne Baring and Faranak Mirjalili dives deep into the mysticism of the Feminine.

Exploring the Relationship between Persian Goddess Anahita and the Sufi Journey to Mount Qaf.