Meet Samantha, the Afghan Hound behind Afghan Hound in the City, and how her fashion-forward presence became a cult social ...

Federal Way community members shared poems and ate traditional treats of pomegranates and homemade cookies at a celebration of Persian holiday Yalda Night, or Shab-e Yalda (or Chela, depending on the ...

Persian has a rich history of more than 2,500 years and is still widely spoken today. It is used in Iran, Afghanistan (as ...

An Oregon cafe that takes orders in sign language has become a cherished space for the Deaf community. The ...

Language is one of the most resilient components of culture. Though many languages have disappeared over the course of ...

New York City’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has drawn praise from Pashtuns around the world after prominently honoring the ...

Mourners gathered today in Bangladesh at the funeral for the country's first female prime minister. Khaleda Zia died Tuesday at the age of 80. NPR's Diaa Hadid reports. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: ...

Abstract: This work uses deep learning and advanced audio features to detect Indian spoken languages. Using pre-trained models such as wav2vec, data2vec, and ccc-wav2vec, we retrieved the feature ...

Bringing with them the languages of their homelands, immigrants newly arrived by ship at Ellis Island await official processing and approval to reach their destination—New York City, already in sight.

Taliban officials admit that at least half of the stockpile is now “unaccounted for.” Many of those weapons ended up with militant groups operating across Afghanistan’s borders. A recent report by the ...