Busy being a mom, wife, and actress, Sarah Shahi shows off sides to her acting skills that few knew existed in her new USA Network show, Fairly Legal.

As an accompaniment to the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, ybca.org will present Panahi’s two newest features, both of which are banned in Iran, in March, 2011.

They will be preceded by the eight-minute short The Accordion, his last finished film before his arrest, about two child beggars.

The World Academy of Arts, Literature and Media (WAALM), has been nominated for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize. The United Nations-affiliated organization, ACUNS, is noting this incredible honor and WAALM due […]

House music DJ duo, Amirali Shahrestani and Iman Habibi, of Strict Border are not deterred by borders and boundaries. Created in Tehran, in 2009, the boys are now based in […]

Did you see Saturday Night Live this past weekend? Yeah…We didn’t either. (Does anyone watch TV according to the networks’ regularly scheduled hours anymore?) We did however catch bits of our […]

Welcoming a baby girl into his growing clan this past January, Iranian comedian, Maz Jobrani, might be making a stop in your city.

Having organized an International Artist Village Residency called Sowing Seeds–which ran for most of December 2010 in Andore, India–Kaman Art Foundation’s most recent art initiative, Bhupat Dudi, successfully showcased artists from […]

Iranian Film Festival 2011 at the Smithsonian’s Freer and Sackler Galleries’ Meyer Auditorium in Washington, DC starts today and will run through Sunday, February 27, 2011. The Freer’s fifteenth annual festival […]

If anyone can relate to the Egyptians who are dealing with the ongoing physical, emotional, and psychological distress resulting from coming face to face with the brutal force of their […]

Said to have been discovered by Pharrell Williams as she was spinning at a London club, Iranian-British hip-hop-DJ-turned-singer-songwriter, Yasmin Shahmir‘s debut single On My Own (produced by Levels Recordings/Ministry of Sound) officially […]

When Bebe announced their plans to mix retail and TV personalities by joining CBS Consumer Products to develop a line of clothing inspired by the “items worn by various characters on […]

The reviews are in! Iranian-American writer and director, Maryam Keshavarz’s film Circumstance, which is about a forgotten (or perhaps unrecognized group) that exists in Iran, lesbians, makes a big splash at […]

Parviz Tanavoli: Monograph, is the most extensive catalogue raisonné on the artist to date. The book includes over 250 color plates displaying his sculptures from the early 1960s to his most […]

Written by S. Mostofi, Cemetery of Dreams is a political thriller novel set in the wake of the 1979 revolution and the hostage crisis. Mostofi was born and raised in […]

His work is brave (as his first name, Shoja, suggests, in Persian), cleverly inquisitive, and unaffected. And yet, these aren’t the only reasons why we find ourselves seduced by Shoja […]

The Omid Foundation Shopping Mall is a unique online shopping experience where you can shop for the things you normally buy from your favorite stores and brands, with the same […]

Iran has banned “the production of Valentine’s Day gifts and any promotion of the day celebrating romantic love to combat what it sees as a spread of Western culture,” AP […]

Saraban, a cookbook, is an unforgettable culinary journey through modern-day Persia. Following ancient spice trails, Greg and Lucy Malouf discover a land of generous hospitality, of tea-houses, mosques and caravanserais.

Some say Persian women are the best dressed, most fashionable females around the world…And we totally agree! So is it safe to assume that Gucci’s latest must-have heels were inspired […]

The Tehran Zoo recently laid to rest 14 lions at their facility, once learning that the lions had been diagnosed with an “infectious bacterial disease that could affect visitors”.