Throughout the past several years, Iran-India relations have witnessed numerous ups and downs, which have mostly been due to political and international pressures which have

Dr. Bernard Lewis “”Iran was indeed Islamized, but it was not Arabized”” . Persians remained Persians. And after an interval of silence, Iran reemerged as

[In English] ماسوله دهکده ای ست که در دامنه ی شمالی البرز قرار گرفته است. ماسوله در ارتفاع هشتصد متری سطح دریا قرار دارد. در

[In Persian] Masoule is a village, settles on the slope of Alborz mountains. Masoule lies up about 800 meters above the sea. The houses in

This poem was first presented  in a poetry reading at Japenese American National Museum, Los Angeles, May 19, 2002. [in Persian] “We must uncenter our

[ In English] “باید ذهنمان را از خودمرکزی رها کنیم باید دیدمان را از انسان مرکزی پاک کنیم تا اعتماد به دست آوریم چونان سنگ

Martin Asser spent a week in Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, meeting some of the prominent personalities among the population of Palestinian refugees. >>>

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is moving forward with plans to build a new, 40-acre detention complex on the main American military base in Afghanistan, officials

British movie Hunger has opened at the Cannes Film Festival to positive reviews  The Cannes film festival this year seems particularly focused on social and

MCLEAN, VA. – The U.S. is its own worst enemy when it comes to the desperately important task of recruiting immigrants as spies, analysts and

Reading through comments, under articles related to the Iranian identity and its diverse nature, maybe one more article, further elaborating the subject, would not hurt.

On Wednesday morning, May 14th 2008, six Baha’i leaders were arrested in Iran, comparable to the “episodes in the 1980s when scores of Iranian Bahá’í

Previous posts: May 14, 2008 Ah! Aunt Blanche’s cream puffs! They were incontestably the best in the world. Restaurant and hotel owners placed their orders

تیم فوتبال پرسپولیس تهران با گل دقیقه 6+90 توانست سپاهان اصفهان را در حضور صد هزار تماشاگر در ورزشگاه آزادی تهران شکست دهد و قهرمان

In a moment of candour, Robert Gates, the US Defence Secretary has admitted albeit implicitly that the Bush administration’s diplomacy towards Iran has long been

Somewhere in Brentwood Bay on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, there is a butterfly garden that makes us delight in the wonders of nature and reflect

Several Iranian clerics criticized President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for a speech he made to seminary students, where he stated that Imam Mahdi led the Iranian nation

The United States and Israel agree on the need for “tangible action” to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s spokesman

President Ahmadinejad, who came to office in 2005 declaring his intention to “hasten the emergence” of Imam Mahdi, said in a speech broadcast nationally this

Iran has arrested 15 people and accused the United States and Britain of training and financing those behind the April bombing which killed 13 people

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CNN) — Six Baha’i leaders in Iran were seized and imprisoned this week, the religious group said. The chairman of the United States Commission on