Discover the rich history of Iran, its ancient name Persia, and the significant reasons behind the official 1935 change to ...

Propaganda is not what it used to be. These days, a crummy movie like “2000 Mules,” a big cinematic lie about the Big Lie that rampant voter fraud denied the reelection of the last U.S. president, is ...

Machine generated contents note: 2.1. The Persians -- 2.1.1. Parsua and Parsumash -- 2.1.2. Kurash of Parsumash -- 2.2. The Indigenous Population of the Iranian Plateau: The Elamites -- 2.3. The ...

Leila Heller, the president of contemporary art galleries in New York and Dubai, happens to also be the author of one of the most beautiful cookbooks released this year. Titled "Persian Feasts" — and ...

The Islamic conquest of Persia unfolded during a moment of deep instability within the Sassanian Empire. Years of war with Byzantium, internal political struggles, and economic decline left Persia ...

Agha Mohammad Khan, an 18th-century Persian king, ordered the execution of two servants for being too loud, but postponed it to avoid doing it on a holy day. He let them return to their duties, but ...

To write a literary history of Persia is to chronicle the thought and development of the land of Iran, from the time of the prophet Zoroaster and the laws of the Medes and Persians down to the latest ...

COL. SYKES has long won a position of authority and distinction in Persian questions by his travels and studies, including the well-known “Ten Thousand Miles in Persia,” an “ ouvrage couronné “ (by ...