In our past columns, we have featured Great Neck's Persian-Jewish community, both Mashadi and Tehrani, many of whom came here ...

Is a romance brewing in the Valley? Reza Jackson, who made his reality TV debut in Bravo’s The Valley: Persian Style, seems ...

More than a month after a pair of attacks killed five Chinese nationals working at a gold mine near Tajikistan's remote border with Afghanistan, questions remain over what led to the high-profile ...

In Southern California, home to the nation's largest Iranian diaspora, the anti-government protests in Iran are being watched nervously.

For a third night in a row, nationwide antigovernment protests rocked Iran, according to witnesses and videos verified by The New York Times, posted on BBC Persian and social media, even as the ...

It's officially country music festival season! This list of the best country festivals of 2026 starts with an all-star, two-day fest in Arizona and ends with a celebration Carrie Underwood headlined ...

Brian Jamison was hired to clean out a trash-riddled farm in Barnesville, Maryland, in 2015, when he came across something in the barn he couldn’t quite bring himself to throw away. He’d found more ...

50 years ago today, Jeffrey Hyman, John Cummings, Douglas Colvin and Thomas Erdelyi got together in Forest Hills, Queens and played their first-ever show together as a band at CBGB. They called ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Richard Nedjat-Haiem, University of California, Santa Barbara (THE CONVERSATION) ...

The Apadana, which was used as a gathering hall for receptions, was the largest building in Persepolis. A relief on the stairway includes depictions of delegates to the Achaemenid royal court (left), ...

Did Iran's 1959 royal wedding inspire Ramin Djawadi's iconic 'Game of Thrones' theme song? Music nerds are obsessed!