NeekOn will feature Live Music, Dance (including a Persian Folklore Dance Flash Mob), Visual Arts, and Food from multiple cultures around the world. (Neek means kindness.) In addition there will be ...

I almost didn’t hear about this concert in time to share, but Iranian vocalist Mohammad Reza Shajarian, one of the greatest living practitioners of Persian classical music, is making a rare local ...

I am twelve years old, and my mother, grandmother and I are traveling to the northern part of Iran. From my grandmother’s home in Tehran, we road trip for almost eight hours via one giant bus filled ...

University of Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Weaving through the rooms of my Brisbane childhood home, carried on the languid, humid, sub-tropical air, was the sound of an ...

The night began as Jewish celebrations often do — with the traditional dancing of the Hora. “Let’s get a circle going!” Edwin Tabrikian, known as DJ Taraneh, said to the crowd. The 34-year-old Iranian ...

For centuries after the Arab Islamic conquest of Iran, my Jewish community in Iran were the primary source that was retaining and maintaining the country’s musical heritage as music was forbidden in ...