Growing up, my aunties would joke that I was more Persian than my dad. He immigrated to Chicago in 1979 and deeply tried to assimilate, rendering me a certain type of diaspora Iranian with fragmented ...
Debates about Iran often follow familiar lines. Some emphasize diplomacy. Others argue for military pressure. Both sides rely on well-established models of deterrence, escalation, and negotiation. But ...
The Taj Mahal in Agra, India, which was built by Shah Jahan of the Mughal dynasty is an example of the Indo-Persian architectural style. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ Yann The ongoing war in Iran has ...
With a history dating back well before the Christian era, the nation known to the West as Persia officially adopted its native name of Iran in 1935. Despite having survived centuries of historical ...
The air campaign across Iran damaged some of its most famous monuments, shattering glass and wood, and cracking walls and ...
As the United States and Israel continue the war which might free the Iranian people from a tyrannical regime, the yearning of the people of Israel for positive relations with the Iranian people has ...
For the first time ever, artist Abol Atighetchi will exhibit his 12 unpublished paintings from 1983 to 1992 at Oblong Contemporary Gallery in Dubai, UAE. The exhibition covers Atighetchi’s works of ...
In a 1974 interview with the shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the US journalist Mike Wallace briefly referred to the dispute over the naming of what has been generally called “Sinus Persicus” ...
Iran’s retaliatory attacks on the United Arab Emirates have put the U.A.E.’s large Iranian expatriate community in an uncomfortable position. By Raja Abdulrahim Photographs by Natalie Naccache ...
For the first time in World Cup history, a host nation is at war with one of its participants. Iranian Americans are at a ...