Hamid Rahmanian has made it his life’s work to share the richness of Iranian culture. “Song of the North,” at the New Victory Theater, is just the latest installment.

Poet Bänoo Zan has won the 2025 Freedom to Read Award. Presented by the Writers' Union of Canada, the annual award recognizes work that is passionately supportive of the freedom to read. Zan is a self ...

Mehdi Yarrahi, an Iranian singer and musician known for his song encouraging women to remove their hijabs, was lashed 74 ...

Persian New Year is celebrated in many countries across the world. Here’s everything you need to know, including what to cook ...

The Nowruz concert will include traditional Iranian music by Iranian soloists and the orchestra led by Carl St.Clair ...

Faiz was a powerful binder of all revolutionary spirits, which is not rage but pain. His metaphors were the common product of ...

Armen Davoudian combined Persian and Armenian culture with English to reflect on life abroad and in the United States during a poetry reading Wednesday. Davoudian, a doctoral student studying ...

TEHRAN- A ceremony was held on Sunday at Tehran’s Art Bureau to unveil the poetry book "Sacred Dahieh." The compilation pays tribute to the valiant commander of resistance, martyr Sayyed Hassan ...

Amir Nojan is a world-renowned setar player whose San Jose apartment doubles as a museum showcasing rare Iranian instruments.

In 2015, two Iranian poets faced 99 lashes each for shaking hands with people of the opposite sex. They were also both sentenced to years in prison for “insulting the sacred” in their writings ...

Dancers in Iranian and Central Asian garb, traditional Persian music and a market of Central Asian and middle-eastern goods were part of a celebration of the Persian new year in Frederick on Sunday.