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Local Persian community celebrates their New Year 'Nowruz' in San Diego. Nowruz means 'Happy, New Day' in Farsi.

Diverse elements of Chinese culture and civilization have influenced Persian literature, particularly Persian poetry. Many ...

The year 2025 marks the 100th anniversary of the time when Armenian American artist Arshile Gorky lived in Watertown. Gorky ...

Iran has marked its annual fire festival. The festival is known as “Chaharshanbe Souri” in Farsi. It comes a week before ...

Meanwhile, the launch of the inaugural Bukhara Biennial later this year will mark a pivotal moment in the country’s emergence ...

Iraqi President Saddam Hussein appeared on television early Thursday morning, characterizing the U.S.-led military campaign as "criminal acts" and saying his nation would be victorious. "These days ...

Drawing on newly declassified documents that reveal the central role of energy in the unraveling of détente, Guy Laron explores how escalating energy crises in the 1970s transformed US-Soviet energy ...

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.

We hear, for instance, of the Per sian war; of Herat, Candahar, Bushire, and DOST MOHAMMED--and we get a vague im pression of places heard of in school-days as somewhere in Afghanistan or Persia ...

Can we imagine an Israeli-Sunni Arab alliance—the Abraham Accords with muscle—that checks Shiite Iran in the Persian Gulf? The Hudson Institute’s Michael Doran even imagines such an entente ...

The one thing I hate the most about our house is all the Persian rugs. They were expensive ... to understand what the fuss was all about. I stumbled on art, photographs, and lovingly written pieces ...