Iranian filmmaker Ebrahim Mokhtari will serve as the president of the international jury of the 4th New Persian Images Festival, where a number of films from Iran will be screened.

In the 1980s and '90s, following the Iranian Revolution, Los Angeles became the epicenter of Iranian pop music. A new album, Tehrangeles Vice, collects hits from some of the city's notable bands.

When you have to live in solitary for a year, with next to no contact with the outside world, how do you pass the time? Well, music is probably going to play a big part. And indeed it does in Apple ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

A new book by Manx-born author Robert Kermeen examines the life and influence of Queen Soraya Bakhtiari, the second wife of the Shah of Iran, and poses a provocative question: Did Queen Soraya’s ...

Last Saturday afternoon, Marjan Vahdat and her sister, Mahsa Vahdat, treated an audience at Big Springs Mountain Retreat, ...

The Bay Area Persian Choir, a non-profit community music group dedicated to preserving and promoting traditional Persian ...