The intricacies of poetry can be quite remarkable. Carefully crafted form, wording, and symbolism alone are hard to capture ...

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

The celebrated Iranian director’s signature style was visible early in his career, as is clear in a new collection of his ...

The award-winning Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has been sentenced to eight years in prison and lashings just ahead of his planned trip to the Cannes film festival, his lawyer told The Associated ...

Safdar Jung, the Persian-born Nawab of Awadh and later Prime Minister of a declining Mughal Empire, shaped one of the most ...

Thousands of Iranian protesters were arrested in the months after the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022, following her arrest for ...

Roozbeh Farahanipour sat in the blue-green glow of his Westwood restaurant’s 220-gallon saltwater aquarium and worried about Iran, his voice accented in anguish. It was Sunday morning, and the ...