Mausoleum of Cyrus Photo Courtesy of the Freer Sackler Archives In 530 B.C.E., Cyrus II - responsible for the downfall of the Medes,...

It is 1870 in Tehran as aromas of tobacco, chai, spices, and naan waft through the air amid the bustle of daily business at the grand...

A print by Edmund Sullivan from the first edition of FitzGerald’s translation My vintage book collection began a few years ago when my...

Matt Hermane, Roxi Eshghipour, and Daniel Durkin reviewing research materials at the Roshan Institute for Persian Studies Research is not...

Imagine if you will a scraggly English man dressed in tattered clothes with a patchy beard trying to cross the border from Iran into...

Negar Abedi and Mohammad Hassan Majooni in The Sky of Snowy Days (2009) staged at the 27th Fadjr Theater Festival, Iran. Directed by...

Shahram Karimi is an accomplished Iranian artist and set designer who has worked both inside and outside of Iran for the last few...

When it comes to judging film, or any art form, what metrics do we use? By what criteria can we say one film was good, or successful, or...

Ida Yousofi, Ashley Kiani, Joseph Ritch, and Bahareh Ghonsul outside the Shared Studios portal to Tehran On the morning of September 9th,...