Iranian authorities have arrested a political activist who criticized the Islamic Republic’s ruling system, his wife ...
Mehdi Nasiri, an Iranian political activist, was arrested after visiting the tomb of Persian poet Ferdowsi. Nasiri's wife revealed on social media that authorities detained him after security checked ...
Bay Area audiences first got to know the Vahdats via their work with the Kronos Quartet, which connected with Mahsa via ...
He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...
The session was organized by the Association for Iranian Studies and the Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies (IRAS), IRNA reported. “During the Tahirid and Saffarid periods, there were poets composing ...
Aref was born in Qacvin, where he studied Persian language and grammar and also some music ... Aref “devoted his art to the people” and used poetry as an effective means of expressing political ideas ...
He lived at a time when the Urdu language and poetry was at a formative stage – and his instinctive aesthetic sense helped him strike a balance between the indigenous expression and new enrichment ...
Persian New Zealander Marjan Nelson traces the roots of Persian music in this episode of Postcards. As a child growing up in Iran, Marjan was immersed in a household where music was woven into the ...