My country, I will build you again, / if need be, with bricks made from my life.”  That line from Iranian poet Simin ...

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Dissident Iranian composer Mehdi Rajabian is barred from leaving his country by its Islamic Republic government, but his work continues to gain traction in the West. On Sept. 17, André Bellmont, the ...

Veteran music journalist and educator Lily Moayeri grew up at the cultural intersection of her birthplace, Washington, D.C., and her parents’ home country, Iran. The daughter of a diplomat, she’d ...

Last month, women in Iran took to the streets of the capital, Tehran, in protest over the right to choose whether to wear the hijab. Some women have publicly removed their headscarves in defiance of ...

At the 6th Session of the International Advisory Board (IAB), jointly organized by Culture Masters (CM) and the Advocacy Alliance for Culture Masters (AACM), Mr. Ali Karimi Tarki, a distinguished ...

Ethnomusicology, the music traditions of the Persian and Arabic-speaking Near East, the history of music in Iran, the relationship between cultural upheaval and musical change. Ann E. Lucas is an ...

Kurdish merchant Rashad Shalboosh reports a major shift from traditional Kurdish instruments like the Tanbur to Western ...

Abbas Amanat, the William Graham Sumner Professor of History at Yale, poured decades of research into “Iran: A Modern History,” his new book charting five centuries of Iranian history and its ...

New York (July 29, 2013) – Asia Society Museum presents Iran Modern, the first major international loan exhibition of Iranian modern art created from the 1950s to 1970s. It will be on view in New York ...