Exactly a hundred years ago, a famine which had been growing slowly across Iran suddenly hit the whole country. The disaster would go on to
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,”
I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other,
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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
Organised violence – the term war boils down to – has long been a unifier of peoples. Archeological evidence shows that nearly half those who
From all sides, the message is coming in: the world as we know it is on the verge of something really bad. From the Right,
Chengiz Khan’s brutal military campaigns into Central Asia (1219-21), which according to a few historians resulted in the unprecedented massacres of civilians and destruction of
Translation of Cylinder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtetliSd3Xo More about Cyrus the Great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InL9jjTO1IE
Listen in on a group of young Iranians talking about sports and you are most likely to hear about football. The global fever over ‘the
Ever since as early as a hundred thousand years ago when our Homo sapiens ancestors preceded by Homo helderbergenis along with our cousins the Neanderthals
Twenty-five years ago Majid Abedi picked up a professional SLR camera, a Canon EOS 650, for the first time and he has not stopped capturing
“How did we get Western civilization if Athens got squished…Persian governance.”
There are many examples of Iranian cultural influence on East Asia. In this article, several examples of this influence in Japan and China will be
From the memoirs of Nosratollah Amini, mayor of Tehran and personal attorney to PM Mossadegh “The Americans do not have the experience or the psychological
Tensions between Sunnis and Shias have been flaring up, with several incidents of violence reported in recent months: Most recently a suicide bomber killed at
A recent survey asked “All things considered, do you think the world is getting better or worse, or neither getting better nor worse?”. In Sweden 10% thought
July 26 marked the 37th anniversary of the death of Iran’s last king, Mohammad Reza Shah. To mark the occasion, Farah Pahlavi, the country’s last
In the history of concentration camps, there is one thing that everyone knows: they were invented by the British. The idea of isolating unwanted population
“The U.S. mainstream media avoids the word ‘coup’ when a disfavored leader is ousted, but the silence around Iran’s 1981 coup also may have served Ronald
On a recent Saturday morning, Craig Adams stood outside the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey. It was sunny but cold.
Two hundred years ago, there arrived in London the first group of Muslims ever to study in Europe. Dispatched by the Crown Prince of Iran,
