Despite a ceaseless battle against government censors, he was celebrated as one of his country’s greatest auteurs, winning ...
Apple TV+ has just begun streaming the third season of the Emmy-winning Israeli drama series Tehran, available in the US and ...
Petrified by the horror stories coming out of the country, Iranian artists living in exile in France keep a close eye on ...
Kurdish director Bahman Ghobadi takes us through the underground music scene in Tehran, where all Western-style music is prohibited. Based on real people, places, and events, Nobody Knows About ...
HaiemBefore Beyoncé, before Cher, before Madonna, there was Googoosh.The 75-year-old Iranian megastar catapulted to stardom ...
The Iranian Independent Filmmakers Association has stepped-up calls for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to reappraise its relationship with Iran’s government-controlled Farabi cinema ...
Before 1979, Iranian women wore miniskirts, earned advanced degrees, ran businesses, and lived lives that looked remarkably like their Western peers. Then came the Islamic Revolution—and everything ...
Raised on Zionism and the Iranian culture of their immigrant parents and grandparents, young people watched the war with dread and hope. Iranian-Jewish American teens inhabit a unique identity at the ...
I always joked that the key difference between Turks and Iranians is what happens when you ask them if they like poetry. Ask a Turk? "Why yes, my friend, I love poetry, all the best poets are Turkish!