Sadegh Adham shares how his childhood experiences during the Iran-Iraq war shaped his art, exploring themes of imperfection, ...

Sharyn Anderson-Campbell and Tiera Sprauve offer uplifting stories that celebrate self-acceptance and mental health.

Iran may seem an unlikely setting for women's ice hockey, but a fledgling league has seen its young players confront the ...

Prior to the lunch, students were provided an opportunity to ask the author questions, a highlight for many with aspirations ...

And in 2024 came Reading Lolita in Tehran, directed by Eran Riklis, who is Israeli, and adapted from a book by an Iranian author, with an almost entirely Iranian cast. The film premiered at the Rome ...

Betty Shamieh is the author of 15 plays, but when she sat down to write her first book, she set out to create something really different, what she calls a Palestinian American "Sex And The City." The ...

Iranian Vice President Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Wednesday his government had put off enforcing the country's strict Islamic dress code in order "not to put women under pressure". Covering the ...

Businesses in several Kurdish cities in Iran went on strike Wednesday after Kurdish groups called for a protest against the death sentences of two female political prisoners. Six Kurdish groups ...

The binary perspective (e.g., modern/traditional, urban/folk, male/female, artistic/popular, elite/ordinary) has been prevalent in Persian music scholarship ... in history or musicology among these ...

A B.C. Supreme Court judge has ordered an executive of an Iranian airline that was previously designated a terrorist entity to be extradited to the U.S. for alleged fraud against American banks.

Bolton has faced threats from Iran going back years, including an alleged plot to assassinate him in 2021 and the Department of Justice subsequently charging a member of Iran’s Islamic ...

Her focus is reporting on international news. She has covered Ukraine, Russia, immigration issues, and the revolution in Iran. Maya joined Newsweek in 2024 from the Londoners and had previously ...