Young people across Iran have been leading a dramatic change in social mores in recent months. “We have a fearless young ...

My country, I will build you again, / if need be, with bricks made from my life.”  That line from Iranian poet Simin ...

Iranian filmmaker Ali Asgari has long explored the quiet tensions and bureaucratic pressures of everyday life in Iran, from ...

Rock still maintains an aura of rebellion in Iran so it’s not surprising that it continues to show up in Iranian New Wave cinema. In 2008’s animated Persepolis, Marji buys heavy metal and punk albums ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... At age eight, Shabnam Kamoii fled alone to Germany to escape the dangers of the Iran-Iraq war. She arrived in America six years later as a refugee, bringing ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Ten Kurdish dance troupes are performing this week to rapt audiences in the western Iranian city of ...

Massoud Bakhshi investigates ethics of home footage documentary with 'All My Sisters,' built upon almost two decades of filming his two young nieces.

In Iran, hardline critics are waging a campaign against President Hassan Rouhani to limit his campaign pledge of opening Iran to more social and cultural freedoms. The "culture wars" are as old as the ...

Arts-based approaches effectively capture the complex and layered experiences of displaced young people, a new study from the ...