I published the second part of “Monsters Under The Stairs” back in March, and revisited this seminal moment of my life. Hope that you follow this series as I prepared to continue with the experience of growing my Substack. drbanafshehmadaninejad.substack.com/p/monsters-u... #womenempowerment

Let’s go back to the beginning - the first part of Monsters Under the Stairs was my first series at Substack. You should catch up with my experiences before my new series starts. drbanafshehmadaninejad.substack.com/p/monsters-u... #iran #womenempowerment #girlspower #explorepage #tehran

New piece just went up on Chelo Kabob for the Soul in the IRAN-NOW Series:

“Mourning as Resistance in a World on Fire”

A meditation on exile, guilt, privilege, and learning to offer grief and praxis not as atonement, but as devotion.

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Part 8 is up. This one’s about the moment it all started to shimmer. Threads, the field, coherence, the architecture underneath it all. And a strange night at NASA that led me straight to the mayor of Tehran—before I’d ever met him.

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AVAILABLE NOW: Before you read the ending catch up on what led to a one-woman film shoot of a mayor on horseback, and a glimpse into the heart of Iran’s reform movement in the late 1990's.
Part 7 is the ending to the story.
Part 8 ties the threads together.
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“Can I make a short film about you?”
Read the next part to know the answer.

Part 6 of An Architecture of Connection is up now.
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“Would you let me make a short film about you?”
He said yes.
What started as a dare became something else entirely.
Part 6 of An Architecture of Connection comes TOMORROW!
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A seat swap. A glimpse through a curtain. And then I was face-to-face with the mayor of Tehran. Part 5 of An Architecture of Connection is live—a story about filmmaking, and the doors we dare to walk through. #Substack #Memoir #IranianCinema open.substack.com/pub/drbanafs...

In Part 3 of An Architecture of Connection, a midnight pull to a forgotten closet leads me to what I had been looking for—and to a feeling that something larger is unfolding.

The story of loss, instinct, and unexpected clarity continues.

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Both parts of “Monsters Under the Stairs” are now up on Substack. A two-part essay on about how trauma settles in the body—and how naming it becomes a way to reclaim power.
Read + subscribe for the full experience.
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TODAY: An Architecture of Connection is a 7-part series of personal and political essays tracing the quiet threads that bind us—across time, memory, and place. Make sure to follow our Substack to follow all the updates! open.substack.com/pub/drbanafs...