My country, I will build you again, / if need be, with bricks made from my life.”  That line from Iranian poet Simin ...

The College of Liberal Arts and the City of Reno invite you to the first Iranian Culture Celebration Event at the University of Nevada, Reno, on Thursday, April 18, from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Knowledge ...

This video traces Iran’s earliest civilizations, beginning with the Elamites and moving through the rise of the Achaemenid ...

As another round of talks is set to begin between the U.S. and Iran over the country's nuclear program, Iran is also experiencing a cultural evolution. NBC News' Richard Engel gets rare access inside ...

Overviews. Iranian culture and South Asia, 1500-1900 / Juan R.I. Cole -- Beyond translation : interactions between English and Persian poetry / Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak -- Turk, Persian, and Arab : ...

Women's professional and cultural lives are still heavily restricted in the conservative Islamic republic, particularly in ...

The Islamic Republic is strategically leveraging pre-Islamic Iranian nationalism and symbols like the Shapur I statue to ...

The Iranian Heritage Foundation hosted a vibrant concert featuring renowned Iranian-Azerbaijani singer Mansour, who put on a dazzling performance at the Illinois Conference Center on Saturday. Mansour ...

Rock still maintains an aura of rebellion in Iran so it’s not surprising that it continues to show up in Iranian New Wave cinema. In 2008’s animated Persepolis, Marji buys heavy metal and punk albums ...

Though Iranian American filmmaker Maryam Keshavarz grew up in New York and New Jersey, she frequently returned to Iran. She spent summers, and also attended second grade there. Keshavarz remembers ...