Academy Award-winning director Sydney Pollack, a Hollywood mainstay who achieved commercial success and critical acclaim with the gender-bending comedy “Tootsie” and the period drama “Out

1908: A British company strikes oil in Persia (now Iran). It’s the first big petroleum find in the Middle East, and it sets off a

Sir Salman Rushdie has paid tribute to all those who stood up and opposed the fatwa imposed on him 20 years ago for writing his

نسرين مي‌گويد: «پدر من در جنگ‌هاي داخلي پس از حمله نيروهاي آمريكايي كشته شد.مادرم يك زن بيوه بود و نمي‌دانم كه چطور ما را بزرگ

Since 2004, the United States has explicitly, repeatedly and passionately singled out Lebanon as an arena where Hezbollah and other regional Islamist forces backed by

The man, who lives abroad, was arrested by police and agents of the Shin Bet security agency on May 8 after arriving in Israel for

You can certainly say that about her other film at the festival, Je Veux Voir (I Want To See). In an absorbing mix of fiction

TEHRAN, May 26 (Reuters) – Three Iranian Revolutionary Guardsmen have died from wounds sustained during a clash with rebels near the Turkish border, an Iranian

No comment ! Story by himself is enough strange! Saudi Arabia, will soon see its first woman pilot taking over the skies as part of

Arian Band,an Iranian Music band,sang along the great Chris De Burgh! A Nice Video.

A Nasa spacecraft has sent back historic first pictures of an unexplored region of Mars. The Mars Phoenix lander touched down in the far north

Death Trap of Dissent: A Discussion with Massoud Noghrehkar on the Struggle of Iranian Dissidents Against Oppression.   Mohammad Tahavori May 20th, 2008 Introduction The

A day with the environmentally conscious students living in the sustainability house at Oberlin College. >>>

Last Thursday, the soldiers of the Third United States Infantry Regiment (the Old Guard) placed a small American flag in front of each of the

مسجد سلیمان قبل از دوران جدید حیاتش که با اکتشاف نفت آغاز شد، اسم و رسمی نداشت. قصبه ای بیش نبود. اهمیتش تنها در این

A Persian rap song entitled “We Are Not Men” [Ma mard nistim] which was first aired on youtube on May 1, 2008, has generated an

Negative societal norms impose themselves in dating, marriage and once again parenting. The cycle has to be broken. Many of the dehumanization is brought about

Yeki bood, yeki nabood How every story begins. For the most part it was the circumstances – we were literally thrown together by the restrictions

The tone of the language suggesting that Tehran continues to stonewall the agency — the U.N. nuclear monitor — revealed a glimpse of the frustration

باورم نیست کزین ابر چنین تندر خاست و گلوگاه همه نغمه سرایان را خست  (1)”دیرگاهیست که در خانۀ همسایۀ من خوانده خروس” شاید آنجا سحری

Lebanon’s new president got a red carpet welcome Monday, but was quickly thrust into the political thicket as Hezbollah’s leader warned against any efforts to

Ayatollah Khamenei, meets American hostage, John Limbert, in Tehran in 1979 during hostage crisis and they talk in Persian. At that time he was one

در انتخابات سال ۲۰۰۰ هنگامی که جرج بوش و جان مک کین برای کاندیدایی از طرف جمهوری خواهان رقابت می کردند گروهی از مردم آمریکا

درچشمهی ِ ديوانگي در زجر ِ ناهنجار ِ اين آوارگي در ساحت ِ بيگانگي             پايان ِ دورافتادگي                         برديده اي ؟ برعمق ِ اين