As President Donald Trump’s rhetoric against Iran heats up again, it is worth recalling a time when the two countries had a distinctly different relationship....
The early twentieth-century invention of sabk or style as a way to periodize the Persian language has been one of the most consequential and enduring trends of...
A common tactic for intelligence agencies is the use of front companies. In books about Israeli spy agencies, the tactic is a frequent reappearance. Former...
Even in the most revolutionary thinkers, you will find the uncannily familiar. Sigmund Freud was no exception. Arabs recognised in Freud’s body of thought ideas...
History might be the best antidote to the unthinking, and pernicious, naturalisation of cisgender identity and heterosexuality. When confronted with the fact that, for most...
As special counsel Robert Mueller continues his probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, we take a look back at Washington’s record of meddling...
For residents of Tehran, the name “Jordan” conjures up images of luxury apartment towers, expensive brand names, and twenty-somethings in fancy cars who spend their...
Think invisible men, time travel, flying machines and journeys to other planets are the product of the European or ‘Western’ imagination? Open One Thousand and...
A newly released trove of films sheds new light on aspects of the British Empire’s imperial science, administration and colonial travel through Iran and India....
Neologisms, according to Merriam-Webster, are new words or terms that are coined to express concepts that appear to lack a word or name. "Scuba", “programming,”...
After years of lobbying, The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) will finally recognize the team sport of polo (Chogan) and the Persian string instrument Kamancheh as...
The world's earliest evidence of grape winemaking has been detected in 8,000-year-old pottery jars unearthed in Georgia, making the tradition almost 1,000 years older than...
