Books
Explores how Iranian civilization has endured not through isolation, but through its ability to absorb, transform, and recreate ideas across centuries. Moving through history, language, culture, and political change, the book presents the Iranian Plateau as a living web of connections — continuously reshaped while preserving its civilizational core.
How can a civilization remain open to the world without losing itself? The World-Linked Mind explores a path beyond imitation and isolation. It introduces a theory of asymmetric civilizational balance, showing how societies can turn global connections into internal strength, creative power, and greater freedom of choice—remaining distinct while becoming more deeply connected to the world.
Paris, 1928. Franz Kafka has survived the illness that should have killed him. In a rain-soaked café, he meets Sadegh Hedayat, a young Persian writer who has stopped imagining a future. When a broken train delays Kafka’s departure, an encounter beside the Seine changes both their lives.
Their journey to Prague becomes a story of friendship, writing, and the difficult freedom of beginning again. Years later, a stranger quotes words Hedayat once translated—and opens a mystery neither writer could have foreseen.
An alternate-history novella
Prague, 1947. A dead man asks for mustard. A forgotten book reappears. Eleven names return.
Across a fractured Europe and a changing Iran, the lives of writers, artists, philosophers, and political figures become connected through letters, paintings, and a small book of Khayyam. Their encounters reveal a history shaped as much by private choices and forgotten lives as by the people whose names endure.
Blending literary fiction with alternate history, The Unfinished World explores power and responsibility, friendship and betrayal, and the uneasy relationship between art and politics. At its heart lies a question: what do we inherit from those who shaped our world—and what does it mean to look at the past without turning away?
Those who wrote the world in their own names are gone; the world remains, along with the names they chose to forget.
