The popular children’s book and video series, Babak and Friends takes Babak, his friends, and us on a few Persian adventures. In the cartoon DVD A First Norooz, Babak visits Persepolis and learns about Amoo Norooz and the Haft Seen through a magical journey. With the talented voices of Shohreh Aghdashloo, Ali Pourtash, Catherine Bell and [...]

Big Bad Boo Studios launched its educational cartoon series, Mixed Nutz, this past Saturday on 28 PBS affiliates reaching more than 30 million viewers! “If we’re not in your area, we’ll be on iTunes and other stations soon…,” says Big Bad Boo co-founder (and Persianesque Magazine’s Iranian-American woman of the year for 2009) Shabnam Rezaei. Mixed Nutz, [...]

Washington, DC–The 1979 revolution resulted in a clear and massive brain drain for Iran and created an estimated annual financial loss comparative to the  yearly cost of the Iran-Iraq War: Causing Iran to miss out on the power of its people’s collective intelligence. However, the flip side is: Iranians live all over the world now and [...]