Hamid Rahmanian has made it his life’s work to share the richness of Iranian culture. “Song of the North,” at the New Victory Theater, is just the latest installment.

Every spring, as the earth tilts toward balance, millions celebrate Nowruz—the Persian New Year—a 3,000-year-old festival rooted in Zoroastrianism that’s as vibrant as the season it ushers in. Known ...

TEHRAN-Hakim Nizami is a poet who has an enduring status and lasting legacy throughout the Persian-speaking lands. With the ...

Azerbaijanis in Iran, like many other non-Persian ethnic minority groups living under the Islamic Republic, face repression ...

TEHRAN-The Persian translation of the book “Heaven Has No Favorites” written by the German writer Erich Maria Remarque has ...

Enjoy brightly dressed dancers, delicious food, tradition, and lore at the Nowruz Festival on Sunday. This is a chance to ...

Produced in an era crowded with movies about division, Matthew Rankin’s ‘Universal Language’ stands out for its generosity, for the way it insists that compassion is always possible, even in an estran ...

A cat's attempt to stop her dad from leaving for work has melted hearts on social media. Caelin Smith ( @cleothecitykitty) ...

Rebecca Sassouni shares her family’s recipe for halva, a beloved dessert that honors both cultural roots and cherished ...

I was trying to get into her life,” Khalid Mehdiyev said of targeting activist Masih Alinejad. “I was trying to get the easy way to kill her.” ...

As a Greek woman in Afghanistan, I decided to live among ordinary Afghans to get a feel about their lives, worries and dreams ...

The festival of fun and frivolity has been harder for some Jews to celebrate in the wake of the destruction of Gaza.