Wine is seen as the natural partner of many great cuisines, but few people associate it with Pers...

Obeyd-e Zakani, who died in 1372 is among the great poets of Iran but little known in the West. T...

Persian Text of the Poems in Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz, introduced and transla...

Amir Abbas Hoveyda was a central figure in the historic struggle between modernity and tradition ...

Links with the Hinterland focuses on two related themes: the importance of what goes on in a port...

The rise of Iranian cinema to world prominence over the last few decades is one of the most fasci...

Some of the most fascinating human epochs lie in the borderlands between history and mystery. So ...

To the task of chronicling the waning years of Persia's Qajar court, Dust-Ali Khan 'Mo`ayyer al-M...

The Chinese invented papermaking, which by the 8th century had reached the Muslim world in Samark...

In the interests of exploiting Iran's location and natural resources to launch a projected attack...

A remarkable woman who lived through extraordinary times, Houri Mostofi was born in Tehran, Iran,...