PAAIA, the Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans is organizing it's third event this time in New York City. The event takes place on Sunday April 25th called “Passing the T MORE >>

Persian New Year – Spring Equinox -  Sal Tahvil Norooz (Nowruz) will be celebrated at the following times: Tehran        Saturday  &n MORE >>

The desire to enrich the City of Geneva’s cultural and botanical patrimony by giving it a ‘’Persian Garden’’ was born three years ago. Particularly suited to Geneva’s international role MORE >>

A year after the overthrow of the Shah, the Islamic Revolutionary Court issued a subpoena with a list of singers and actors who were ordered to surrender to Evin authorities. Second on MORE >>

Shabeh Jomeh, a networking organization for Iranian professionals, celebrated its 10th anniversary on February 19, 2010. Tamilla Ghodsi, Shabeh Jomeh founder and PAAIA board member w MORE >>

Washington, DC - The United Nations General Assembly has approved a resolution recognizing the Persian New Year, Norooz, as an 'International Day' celebrated by over 300 million MORE >>

FALLS CHURCH, VA- Mixed Nutz will launch as part of a brand new block of programming on MHz Worldview March 6. Premiering at 10 AM ET, the weekly block includes the best in children’ MORE >>

Ghashghai Wedding is one of the most interesting events amongst Persian Tribes. The men and women take one handkerchief in each hand and stay around a circle and dance with the music of MORE >>

I was born and brought up in Iran, a beautiful country full of history. I started taking photos at an early age of my life with a Lubitel, a Russian twin lenses camera. Most of my photo MORE >>

Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains. Eric Joseph Jerpe was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in MORE >>

 “Where politics fails, independent Cultural Diplomacy often comes into rescue.”  M. Dorbayani, Founder of WAALM.   “Cultural Diplomacy was persuasive during the MORE >>

The Monnaie de Paris and its CEO Mr. Christophe Beaux were very honored to welcome Her Majesty Farah Pahlavi yesterday. Her Majesty attended the photography exhibition “Iran 1979-2009: MORE >>

Here is a Beautiful German Documentary titled Rivalinnen:Soraya und Farah Diba produced by ZDF/ARD about the Rivalry between Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiary and Farah Diba fo MORE >>

Ana Lily Amirpour is working on her next project: a short film called KETAB, about a lonely young guy in Tehran who goes to buy a book.  On the surface, it appears to be a very MORE >>

The grand, wrought iron gates of the Polish wartime cemetery have not been opened for decades and are permanently padlocked. Entrance can be gained using a smaller, more prosaic, gat MORE >>

The award-winning About Elly has been selected to represent Iran in the foreign category nominations for the 82nd Academy Awards. Asghar Farhadi's film was selected by an Iranian co MORE >>

In Australia, there was a government body called the Aborigines Protection Board which was set up in 1883 which controled the Aborigines until 1969. These boards thought that the only w MORE >>

Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi and his family live in a quiet suburb in Virginia quite far away from the Regal Life to which they were used to during the head of the family’s reign, that of MORE >>

From the team that brought the “Pirates of the Caribbean” trilogy to the big screen, Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films present PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME, an e MORE >>

Parviz Meshkatian, the great master of Persian santoor, passes away. Parviz Meshkatian was born in Neishabur (northeastern Iran) in 1955. He started his musical training at the age of MORE >>