Yara Shahidi turned seventeen this year, and has accomplished much more before her eighteenth birthday than most. As a standout star on the award-winning ABC...
"The U.S. mainstream media avoids the word 'coup' when a disfavored leader is ousted, but the silence around Iran’s 1981 coup also may have served Ronald...
Iran’s a funny one. For many first-generationers, including myself, our families stand out as immigrants from one of the most stringent Islamic republics in the...
What comes to mind when thinking of Iranian women? Oppressed, covered head to toe and confined to the home? These stereotypes, however, are far from...
The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) has once-again made its presence felt in Seattle. NIAC, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening the voice of...
On a recent Saturday morning, Craig Adams stood outside the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey. It was sunny but cold....
The Alavi Foundation, formerly called the Pahlavi Foundation, was back in the news last week when FBI surveillance team member George Wineriter took the stand...
Reza Aslan, best selling author, scholar of religions (which he all too often likes to point out), public intellectual, and host/co-producer of the CNN spiritual...
