The award-winning About Elly has been selected to represent Iran in the foreign category nominations for the 82nd Academy Awards. Asghar Farhadi's film was selected by an Iranian co MORE >>

In Australia, there was a government body called the Aborigines Protection Board which was set up in 1883 which controled the Aborigines until 1969. These boards thought that the only w MORE >>

From the team that brought the “Pirates of the Caribbean” trilogy to the big screen, Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films present PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME, an e MORE >>

Parviz Meshkatian, the great master of Persian santoor, passes away. Parviz Meshkatian was born in Neishabur (northeastern Iran) in 1955. He started his musical training at the age of MORE >>

Salehi is part of a group of post-revolution Iranian Artists who have merged East-Western traditions and have invented a new language of exile, and in this regard is considered as one o MORE >>

Persian music was launched for more than 2100 audiences by Mohammad Reza Shajarian and Shahnaz Ensemble in Cologne on Sep. 5th, 2009. This concert is a part of the tour concert of Shaja MORE >>

The defense of the Pass of Thermopylae, fought in 480 BCE between several united Greek city-states led by King Leonidas of Sparta, against the Persian army amassed by Xerxes the Great MORE >>

Funny how the Internet changes not only people's lives but also their friends. Siba Shakib and I both lived in Iran, both lived in Germany, both went to the same school. However, we MORE >>

An International Conference is organized in memory of Howard Baskerville on October 10, 2009- his centennial - at the University of California at Irvine. The conference is free and MORE >>

The Persian Aghd, which is the legal ceremony of the Iranian wedding, is a beautiful and joyful event celebrated with lots of music, la MORE >>

Many of us first generation Iranian-Americans, who were teenagers during 1979 Iranian Revolution, read “Oliver Twist” novel as kids back home.  I still remember the face of child actor MORE >>

PM: Tell us a little about yourself. Monika Jalili: I was born and raised in NYC. My parents are Dutch/German. I am a graduate of both Columbia University and The Manhattan School of MORE >>

Everyone knows in year 2009, there is no Summer Olympics to join, But, there is one Olympiad in this odd year with its own words to coin These days, there is an Olympiad in our mind MORE >>

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Terry Jones one of the Members of the Famous Monty Python Band is also a History Enthusiast. In a Documentary for British TV called 'The Barbarians', he introduces us to the Anc MORE >>

Some of us know what we want to be when we grow up, others have their paths written for them. Talent is an unstoppable source which leads ones way. It took a couple phases for Amir Lo MORE >>

Delegates from 26 nations participated the 6th annual international human rights summit in Geneva, Switzerland. This summit hosted delegates, dignitaries and youths from: Austria, Bulg MORE >>

Bay Area Iranian-American Voter Association (BAIVOTER)http://www.baivoter.org Farhang Foundationhttp://www.farhang.org Iranian Alliances Across Borders (IAAB)http://www.iranianallianc MORE >>

Thank god I am not alone in what I think of war in Afghanistan.  I feel increasingly confident, as a non- military person, to assert my opinion after the resignation of Mathew Hoh, a fo MORE >>

To millions of people around the world, Barak Obama is the messiah, a visionary with the message of ‘hope’ and ‘change’, whose mere image portrays a new America in the quest for peace.& MORE >>