Street Tulips

The outbreak of war has exposed, and exacerbated, faultlines in the Iranian diaspora

In search of a flower, I spent one day in early March going to plant shops and market stalls in central Malmö, Sweden. I was looking for something in particular: the laleh-ye vazhgoon, the inverted tulip. A reddish mountain flower that grows in the Zagros, the ancestral lands of the ...
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Street Tulips