1979’s Iranian Revolution saw millions of citizens fleeing the country in its aftermath. Amid this Iranian diaspora, many of ...

The santur sounds out of another time. Out of place, too, in a New Haven apartment. The Persian instrument has been played ...

In the show Omid tackles serious issues such as climate change, terrorism, financial instability and oceanic pollution.

Jayalalithaa critiques Khomeini's music ban and AIR's censorship of Ilaiyaraaja's song in a 1979 article, defending cultural ...

National Gugak Center and Del Sol string quartet join forces with faculty and students from UC Santa Cruz and other Bay Area ...

Every story has a spark. For pianist Hayk Melikyan, the spark that led to his exploration of the works of Gurdjieff wasn’t a ...

Salehi said that nearly 40,000 individuals have studied the Persian language in Turkey over recent decades, indicating strong ...

On her new album, “The BPM,” the songwriter, fiddler and rapper pumps up the beat and crafts a timely narrative about humans and machines.

For lovers of fine piano playing, little can match the events of the past two weeks, especially if one happens to be Canadian ...

More than a dozen short films showcased Thursday night during the county’s first short-film festival, Short Notice — an event ...

The Mizrahi Story is making a public record out of private, kitchen-table memory. It was born in response to an online ...

After living for decades in exile, chased by war and religious bans, Naghma persists in singing to her people.