On the occasion of launching the double issue mohit.art NOTES #4/5 entitled “Lust and The Male Beloved,” Bernd Fechner and Hannah Jacobi speak with Tehran-based author Amir Hassan Cheheltan about desrie, lust, and love (between men) in classical Iranian literature in the context of his book Der Zirkel der Literaturliebhaber that has been published as yet only in the German translation (Munich: C. H. Beck, 2020). mohit.art is excited to be able to publish an excerpt of the not yet published English translation of Cheheltan’s The Gathering of Literature Lovers.
