Persian. American.
World wanderer.
Tara Jamali is a writer and photographer with a degree in Global Communications.
Trilingual and multicultural, she divides her time between the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East. Her areas of interest include art, culture, and travel.
Ever since completing her graduate thesis on the representation of Middle Eastern women in media, she has found a calling in reporting on feminist issues in the Middle East, particularly the Woman Life Freedom movement in Iran.
Formerly an obituary notice editor at The Boston Globe, her work has appeared in Ms. Magazine, The New Feminist, More to Her Story, San Diego Union-Tribune, The New Arab, Inspirelle Paris, and others.
Articles
"After all these years, awakening is my right" - Iran's lost theatre queens
Shahrzad was one of the pioneering women of Iranian theatre. After Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979, however, her memory faded.

Bathed in Persian Pink at the Kashan Rosewater Festival
A traveler obsessed with the color pink travels to the Kashan Rosewater Festival to discover the importance of rosewater in Persian culture.
Blog Posts

A Merry Icelandic Christmas
Unlike most countries that celebrate Christmas with a single Santa Claus, Icelandic children are fortunate to have thirteen Jólasveinar, or Yule Lads, visiting them.

Still I Am Traveling
Where in the world is more fitting than Venice to be on a boat, advancing wherever the journey would take?
