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

New York Festival of Song will launch its 2025–2026 Mainstage Series with South America, North America: A Love Story. Concert ...

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

Iran has showcased its missile capabilities after announcing that it is no longer bound by the 2015 nuclear deal.

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

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

In 2011, Emel Mathlouthi stood among the crowd of protesters in Tunis and began singing her song “Kelmti Horra,” which means ...

His most recent movie, the Palme d'Or-winning 'It Was Just an Accident,' is only the latest of a 30-year career that's thrown ...

Early on Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led fighters launched a multipronged terrorist attack on Israel. The resulting war in Gaza has ...

Three years ago, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman named Mahsa Jina Amini was fatally beaten by Iran’s morality police. She’d been ...

Princeton students Kian Petlin '28, Natalia Bonilla '29, and Isabella Rivera '27 (left to right) in rehearsal for the Lewis Center's production of Mohammad Yaghoubi's play, A Moment of Silence. Photo ...