It's built around a long-running - debunked - claim President Trump visited Iran before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, to buy ...

This musicology graduate has been living in France for the past 10 years and was recently accepted into a PhD program at ...

For Iranian artists long exiled from their homeland, the conflict has heightened the difficulties and dangers of keeping in touch with family and colleagues in Iran. “We have been cut off,” said ...

That's the question songwriter Rostam Batmanglij has been reflecting on in his new album,. Batmanglij, known mononymously as ...

Inspired in part by Zohran Mamdani’s NY mayorship, Rostam Batmanglij’s gorgeous new album fuses Americana with sounds of the Middle East. So why isn’t his mum happy?

The feature film debut from Iranian-French director Mahsa Karampour about her and her brother, a former member of indie rock ...

Bands and orchestras have begun returning to the stage in Tehran, where musicians have struggled to find work since war with ...

The U.S. military said Wednesday that it boarded an Iranian-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman that was suspected of trying to violate the A ...

The annual spring music event at Ureuk World Music House on April 25 once again brought together global citizens under the ...

Mehrnam Rastegari’s self-released 2025 debut album, Dislocated Pulse, is a delightfully fiery extension of an eclectic tradition. The New York–based Persian violinist fuses Eastern elements with funk, ...

Before rising conflict pushed the Strait of Hormuz into the spotlight as a choke point vital to economies globally, tourism ...