START, presented by Prudential, introduces START Projects, a series of curator-led initiatives that will occupy the entire second floor of the Saatchi Gallery in London. Running from Wednesday, September 9th […]

Tirgan announces its 2015 program reflecting the tremendous ethnic diversity within Iran through music, dance, theatre, cinema, literature, visual arts, and cuisine. Tirgan 2015 which runs from August 20-23rd in Toronto, Canada, continues the cultural dialogue between the Iranian community and the global community-at-large with new and returning artists. This year’s festival also includes Scarlet Stone, a new multidisciplinary and collaborative effort combining music, dance, and animation. The festival will […]

Disney’s “Descendants,” is a live-action movie that fuses castles with classrooms to create a contemporary, music-driven story about the challenges in living up to parental and peer expectations.

On the occasion of the ORYX Foundation’s 5th anniversary, Iranian contemporary art will be on display at a Swiss Museum in: “There Are Too Many Walls But Not Enough Bridges”. 

As a fan and friend of the amazingly talented DC-based electro-lounge pioneers, Thievery Corporation, we cannot tell you how excited we are about the release of Thievery’s much-anticipated album, Culture of […]

Golreezan.com, an Iranian-American line of Persian-inspired products, including: stationery apparel, stickers, magnets, and alphabet blocks, is thrilled to present the first-ever Persian alphabets blocks, a collaboration with Uncle Goose Toys, the world’s premier manufacturer of […]

The LUZ fine jewelry collection is a piece of wearable art that you can conveniently display and enjoy on your finger. Custom-made for the individual, the unisex line is boldly […]

  A Persian cooking show is on Nat Geo People. Award winning Iranian-American chef and cookbook author, Ariana Bundy’s Ariana’s Persian Kitchen is an eight-part cooking and travel series, set to start airing across 98 […]

Have you ever wondered why there is such a lack of Persian Chefs in the culinary world? We have. So we searched and researched–sniffing around the global kitchen–and found our […]

  An independent researcher, Amir-Esmaeil Bozorgzadeh, conducted an online poll shortly after the nuclear agreement was made between Iran and the P5+1. The sample was compiled by questioning 2,050 respondents who currently […]

Although he left his home in Iran over 40 years ago to settle in France, Chahab continues to explore Iran’s rich history, cultural heritage, and famous excavation sites for inspiration: His work is set to be featured at the Golestan Gallery in Tehran (Iran’s most prominent contemporary art gallery) in the coming months.

Persia’s most popular and visually stunning script Nasta’ligh at Freer Sackler Gallery

  Popular Persian stand-up comedian K-von’s latest feature length documentary, Nowruz: Lost & Found is loaded with laughs. The movie follows K-von’s discovery that he was “not informed about a huge holiday known […]

  Written by BBC journalist, Maziar Bahari, the feature film Rosewater is based on the New York Times best-selling memoir, Then They Came for Me: A Family’s Story of Love, […]

  Finally! All you Iran-loving foodies, your wish has come true.

In her current works being shown in the exhibition, “West Turns Middle East”, the artist reflects on the role of women in Iranian society and often uses her portraits in various forms; full body, face, or in the representation of an animal.

  Created by Mo Davoudian, founder of Brain Zoo Studios, an Emmy® Award winning character animation studio based in Los Angeles, “Pepe & Lucas” is a new enhanced children’s book.

Comedian K-von has a father from the Middle-East and a mother from Middle-America, leaving him…Somewhere in-between. And in his new one-hour comedy special, “Tanx God”, he entertains with his multicultural […]

Call her what you will, but star of BravoTV‘s Shahs of Sunset, and reigning Persian Prom Queen, Lilly Ghalichi, is not hearing any of it. She’s too busy rising above the cynicism […]

In “Custodian of Vacancy: The Iranian Embassy in the USA”, Iranian-American artist Eric Parnes exhibits a series of rare photographs featuring the empty and dilapidated building that was once filled with people and parties, much like any other embassy in DC.