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.

🧵 Read: drbanafshehmadaninejad.substack.com/p/an-archite...

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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"I’m reaching out to let you know that he’ll be riding his horse close to the Karaj dam tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. and would like for you to be present.”

The last part of this series goes live Wednesday.
Catch up now and walk with me through the final turn.

“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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Hello all, delays are due to non-serious but nonstop family illness. We'll get back on schedule soon. Hugs and thank you for the well wishes.

Dear everyone, we'll be pausing for the week to deal with some health issues! Thanks for your patience, many stories to come.

“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...

You will want to catch up to al previous parts of "An Architecture of Connection" before my post tomorrow!
Find them all in my Substack here: drbanafshehmadaninejad.substack.com
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Part 4 is here. An expired passport, a smuggled bottle of champagne—and a midair run-in with the mayor of Tehran.
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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...

In this second and final part, I revisit the moment everything changed—the day I learned how fear is planted in the body and how silence is enforced. A testament to our resilience.
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And stay tuned—there’s more to come. 🔥✨

In 1982 Tehran, my middle school looked ordinary—but nothing was. Rules tightened, fear settled in, and I pushed back—starting with my uniform. This two-part story is about defiance, fear, and girlhood under repression.
Both parts at Substack.
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Hello everyone! We're finally getting started at our Substack!
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