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.

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

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

Amir Nojan is a world-renowned setar player whose San Jose apartment doubles as a museum showcasing rare Iranian instruments.

The Nowruz concert will include traditional Iranian music by Iranian soloists and the orchestra led by Carl St.Clair ...

There is always a risk of totalitarianism,” warned the filmmaker, who fled to Germany last year and is currently heading up ...

Festival organizers called Nowruz a “universal moment of rebirth and renewal,” a cultural welcoming of spring.

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

Mumbai: The BJP has demanded that the Mumbai Heritage Conservation Committee (MHCC) urgently visit iconic Irani cafés and ...

At the crossroads of Iranian and Canadian culture, “Universal Language” is a unique mixture of surrealism and normalcy. The ...

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 ...

Like many Iranian reformists, Zibakalam was a revolutionary in the 1970s. He was born into a religious family in Tehran in ...