Safdar Jung, the Persian-born Nawab of Awadh and later Prime Minister of a declining Mughal Empire, shaped one of the most turbulent chapters in Indian history. His South Delhi tomb—grand yet ...
Designed by Farshid Moussavi Architecture and DLR Group, the first Ismaili Center in the U.S. learns from Islamic ...
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, January/February 2026, pp. xx-xx Special Report By Trita Parsi IN A STRIKING PIVOT, the foreign policy ...
He was an architect with no training as an actor whose life was changed by a chance encounter. He inspired rave reviews and a New Yorker short story. By Alex Traub Homayoun Ershadi, a middle-aged ...
T he Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Ekistics, Jamia Millia Islamia, organized the 7th International ...
The serial nomination, encompassing mosques from various historical periods and across different provinces, highlights the evolution of Iranian Islamic architecture from its early beginnings after the ...
He collaborated with renowned filmmakers Abbas Kiarostami, Marc Forster, Dariush Mehrjui, Kathryn Bigelow, Marc Forster, Alejandro Amenábar, and others. Taste of Cherry (1997) and The Kite Runner ...
Homayoun Ershadi, the Iranian architect-turned-actor who is best known internationally for his role in Marc Forster’s Afghanistan-set The Kite Runner, has died at the age of 78. Iran’s state news ...
This week, an array of cultural luminaries traveled to the ancient Siwa Oasis in Egypt’s far-off Western Desert for the inauguration of a private museum dedicated to the art of Peter Beard, the ...