What started as series of public demonstrations and strikes across Iran nearly two years earlier peaked on 11 February, 1979, with the Islamic Revolution of...
The common histories of Ireland and Iran in fighting for independence were recalled on Monday at an event in Dublin marking the 40th anniversary of...
When I was a student in Paris in the mid-1980s, I had heard of Yann Richard but had never actually met him. The very first...
In 1979, Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Iran from exile in France. Paris had hoped that Khomeini would bring democracy to Iran in 1979, but relations...
These days a lot of us hyphenated Iranians have been going down the memory lane to make sense of the euphoria, mania or what-have-you that...
A former Iranian foreign minister and ambassador to the United States from the Shah-era shared his thoughts on the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution...
Forty years ago, the Iranian revolution sent a shockwave through the Middle East, overthrowing the Western client, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and bringing to power...
Iranian civilization is among the most ancient and its empires were some of the earliest and strongest in history. In this animated historical documentary we...
The annual event known as the Ten Days of Dawn marking the political celebration of the Islamic Revolution in Iran on February 11 has begun....
Iran claims to be the birthplace of ice cream, but how could it be made 2,000 years ago? The Travel Show visits an underground space used to...
The Sassanid Empire was weakened after the war of 602-628 against the Byzantine Empire and their defeats at al-Qadisiyyah and Nahavand at the hands of the Caliphate...
Elizabeth grew up in the Scottish Highlands. Her father was the manager of the Bank of Scotland. Along with two other of her siblings she...
Zoroastrianism, as one of the oldest religions still in existence and probably the world’s first monotheistic faith, had been the state religion of three Persian...
Dubbed “the Jackie Kennedy of the Middle East”, Farah Pahlavi built a world-class collection of modern art before she and her husband were exiled. Now 80, she reflects on her beloved country.
Jewish people have called Iran home for nearly 3,000 years. The Trump administration and U.S. ally Israel often depict the Iranian government as composed of...
It’s hard to explain how some one from another country becomes interested or curious with a different culture which is in sharp contrast to hers...
Israeli intelligence officials desperately tried to prevent Ronen Bergman from writing “Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations,” a stunning book...
Vita Sackville-West was a poet, novelist, travel writer, diarist and garden designer. Her travels to Persia came about as the result of her husband accepting...
Mary Sheil is the first European, female travel writer who travelled and lived in Persia and left behind a valuable travel journal which later was...
Annemarie Schwarzenbach lived life on a fast lane. At 23 she completed her doctorate in history at the University of Zurich. She was a journalist,...
Jane Dieulafoy was an accidental archaeologist who achieved so much in the field. After she married her husband, Marcel, the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1) broke out...
Thirty years after the end of Iran’s “War of Sacred Defense” Iran’s “military parades” are attacked, but the world still doesn’t really comprehend exactly what...
Prophet Mohammad and Khosrow Parviz were born only months apart (570, 571 A.D) and both died within a few years of each other. Arab tradition...
Sylvia Anne Terry -Smith was born in London, 1916. She married to Angus Matheson and later to Henry Schofield with whom she lived in Iran...
Freya Stark was born in Paris 1893 and raised in Italy and England. Her father was English and mother Italian. She spoke English, French, Italian...
Fernando Pessoa was born in Portugal in 1888. A year before he died, Message, was published. It was a patriotic collection of poems in three...
Recent excavations by Turkish archeologists near the northern Anatolian city of Amasya have unveiled the remains of a 2,500-year-old Persian Achaemenid palace, a reception hall,...
I think the label ‘traveler’ is not accurate when describing Isabella Bird. She was an explorer, writer, naturalist and photographer who was born in England....
The ancient Greeks and Romans rightly believed that magic were invented by the Persians. The 1st-century Roman writer Pliny the Elder (CE 23 – AD CE) has written that magic was first...
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