Farhadi’s A Separation won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film this year, a rare positive moment for the image of Iran in the West. While hawks

Israeli newspapers on Sunday were thick with innuendo, the front pages of the three largest dailies dominated by variations on the headline “Mysterious Explosion in

As the owner of a hotel in 1960s Libya, Mohamed Nga lived in the rarefied circles of Tripoli’s cosmopolitan society. His son, photographer Jehad Nga, writes

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak arrived in Washington this week with the message that not even the far-reaching sanctions adopted by the U.S. and its

Kabul’s expatriates go out and partake in the manic craziness of the city’s bar and restaurant scene in houses reminiscent of America’s Prohibition-era speakeasies, behind

From the time the sun set Tuesday evening, Tehran was filled with the sounds of small explosions and the smell of smoke. Police and Basij

Given Iran’s strict religious culture and the series of grim-faced, dourly dressed clerics that have been the face of the Islamic Republic since the 1979

For several weeks over the summer, the hordes of Iranians clogging the streets to oppose an apparently rigged presidential election gripped much of the world.

Are the wheels coming off the Iranian regime bus? On July 26, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad fired the country’s Intelligence Minister, Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejeie, a

Before we go too far down the road cheering the forces of Iranian democracy, let’s not forget that its public face, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, has American

Day after day they marched, tens of thousands strong, defiant chanting demonstrators surging through the streets of Tehran, a capital unaccustomed to the shouts and

Barack Obama’s Persian New Year message to the leaders and people of Iran appears to have had a significant impact in Tehran. That much was

In one of the craziest elections in American history, he overcame a lack of experience, a funny name, two candidates who are political institutions and

Americans of every religious stripe are considerably more tolerant of the beliefs of others than most of us might have assumed, according to a new