“Initially the show was going to focus on a group of hipsters, of Middle-Eastern descent, but after a lot of thought, [we] thought it would be much more riveting to explore how eight extremely diverse twenty-something Torontonians co-habitate,” says producer Maryam Rahimi of her Toronto-based co-venture.

Calling all Maz Jobrani fans! You must check out these vintage videos we’ve come across, featuring your favorite Iranian-American comedian: Maz Jobrani as Belind Dater; Jamshid. “Belind Date” written by playwright, […]

“All the excitement this Labor Day weekend will be right here in Beverly Hills, and everyone in the Los Angeles region, most especially the Persian community is invited to join our celebration,” said Mayor Jimmy Delshad.

Last summer, we covered a case in which a juror was removed for making slurs about Isaac Larian’s ethnicity, the Jewish, Iranian-born CEO of MGA, maker of Bratz, calling Iranians: “rude” and “thieves” who have “stolen other person’s [sic] ideas,” during a legal battle between Mattel and Barbie.

Film festivals that honor Iranian films are held annually across the globe and now the time has finally arrived for an Iranian Film Festival to have a permanent home in the United Kingdom. UKIFF (a London-based charity and limited company) is delighted to announce the inaugural London Iranian Film Festival.

Among the highlights from the exhibition will be a work from Shoja Azari and Shahram Karimi’s Silence Series, 2007-2008, which incorporates painting and video to create a moving painting.

Check out Persiansque Magazine’s exclusive interview with Jimmy Vestvood: He dishes on his life as a Private Investigator, son, and now…Sexiest Persian Alive.

12Petals as a community production based media group with an emphasis on the “culture of human rights” philosophy strives to be a union of interdependent visual artists, musicians, filmmakers, cinematographers, playwrights, socials entrepreneurs and more.

Hey ABJEEZ fans…Your girls have a new jam for you: Farfar (Swedish: your grandfather). Sisters, Melody and Safoura’s latest song, Farfar is a lounegy-type beat sung in Swedish.

Attracted to the quiet power that his imagery exerts, we find Karimi’s vision to be intentional, catching, and angularly-futuristic. And compared to the over-exposure (no pun intended) of black and white shots all over the world and web, Karimi’s end product(s) easily goes far beyond just good framing.

In trouble already? Maybe so. DC-grown Rostam Batmanglij’s indie-rock-band, Vampire Weekend (and some photographer) are being sued for more than $2Million.

The circuitous and appealing patterns of perfectly-placed rectilinear and curvilinear lines seen in Elad’s work draws from a coveted type of Persian rug–especially the silk variety–known as the: Tabriz.

For my nightly bawling…The pain that’s worn me out…For the want of seeing the light…that died when you left my home

To celebrate the special fifth anniversary of Camp Ayandeh, many special activities are planned for the duration of Camp Ayandeh, including a performance by the Iranian indie rock band The Yellow Dogs, among other special guests.

Purchase the 2010/10 Iranian/Gregorian calendar designed and produced by the girls at the Omid Foundation showing their own paintings and photographs. Part of the proceeds is donated to the girls who created the calendar.

Director Robert Adanto’s new documentary film “Pearls on the Ocean Floor,”–shot in London, Berlin, NYC, San Francisco, and Leipzig–while a “friend provided some footage from Tehran”– interviews some of the most influential Iranian female artists living and working in and outside of Iran.

UK-based industrial designers, Arash and Kelly, are running a prize draw to get your support to help the dedicated, hardworking, and compassionate people that are Y.E.S.S, a small charity in Camberwell, […]

She had us at first glance! San Francisco-based Iranian-American artist, Taravat Talepasand, has the ability to create the kind of art that makes you incapable of passing by her pieces […]

“For the past three years, because of censorship in Iran and some other problems, I have had no official exhibitions and have not been able to create any work.  So […]

For some of you…Your summer’s about to get a whole lot funnier! Your favorite Persian actor/comedian, Maz Jobrani, has announced his June 2010 plans: