It's hard to imagine now, but Iran and Germany were once surprisingly close. A master poet, a German "Lawrence of Arabia," and an empress all played a role in this shared history.Germany and Iran have ...

The West is at war with fear. Today, my heart aches for the West. Despite our war against fear in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Palestine, and now ...

Reza Shah of Persia announced on March 21, 1935 that he was changing Persia's name to Iran. A modernizer, the Shah believed the name Persia was too out of fashion and oriental. Armenian ...

Understanding one of the world's oldest civilizations can't be achieved through a single film or book. But recent works of ...

Rabindranath Tagore visited Persia in 1932 at the invitation of Reza Shah Pahlavi, who sought to strengthen cultural ties.

From the eleventh century until the fifteenth, verse romance was the most popular narrative genre of Persian poetry. The earliest examples are very charming “entertainments” and are completely lacking ...

Muhammad Ali Mojaradi says it was a poetry book he bought with his grandmother at a bookstore in Tehran nearly a decade ago, "The Quatrains of Omar Khayyam," that inspired his love of the Persian ...

The Indo‑Iranian connection did not end with the Indus Valley civilisation; it carried forward through language, philosophy, ...

Persian has deeply influenced India’s language and literature for centuries, and everyday speech, shaping administration, ...

IMPRISONMENT of writers and poets is not something unusual and history tells us that putting authors behind bars ...

From poetry and music to traditional sabzi polo and Iranian afternoon tea, Amira Arasteh on where to mark the Persian New ...