Filmmaker Omid Iranikhah says his short film “Farsi With Maman” is intensely personal — but not autobiographical. The film, ...

The Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies hosted a culture and language day on Tuesday to commemorate the introduction of a newPersian studies concentration this fall that will be housed ...

Introduction to Persian language and culture. By the end of the semester, students will have an overview of Persian grammar and will able to read and converse in Persian at a basic level. Class ...

“The Farsi language is a poetic language,” says Masud Valipour, owner of Ketabsara Persian Calligraphy and Books in Westwood’s Persian Square. He gestures along the store’s walls where turquoise, jade ...

What to call the Persian language in Afghanistan? It's a question Afghans have grappled with and sparred over for decades. The long-simmering dispute was reignited after the BBC changed the name of ...

DUBAI — MBC, the Arab world’s most popular TV net, is launching Farsi-language channel MBC Persia in what marks another step in the multimedia group’s expansion into multiple-language offerings. The ...

“Universal Language” takes place in an imaginary, barely conceivable Canada that has taken in so many Iranian immigrants that road signs and graffiti are in Farsi, even in remote Winnipeg. At Tim ...

Over the years, everyone has heard the chants of "Death to America" and "Death to Israel" coming from the streets of Tehran, but those outside Iran never hear those chanting in the streets as they ...

Hassan Nazer's drama won the audience award in Edinburgh. By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent The British Academy has selected Winners, the Farsi-language drama from British-Iranian writer/director ...