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

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.

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

In the absence of critical discourse on marriage-class-sexuality, patriarchal relations, i.e. kinship, to a man remain the primary option for accessing resources for women.

This metaphor recognises that truth isn’t a lump of gold that we simply pick up and pass on to you. We gather information and ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Universal Language” is a true sleeper, a Canadian comedy that imagines a version of Winnipeg that has an Iranian cultural influence. The movie is opening at the Magic Lantern, and Nathan Weinbender ...

Chicago has seen of late an intriguing clutch of works looking at themes of family, culture and diaspora. Sanaz Toossi’s “English” (seen at the Goodman Theatre) explored a group of Iranian students ...