The Iranian government has exerted forceful control over its citizens since the Islamic Republic seized power nearly 50 years ago. The pop star Googoosh has firsthand experience of opposition to the ...

Iran has been here before. For decades the country has gone through cycles of protest and repression at the hands of the ...

Cinema has been a part of Iran for nearly its entire history. Though the work of Ebrahim Khan Akkas Bashi is no longer extant ...

Singer-songwriter Cao Shi's home stood just a stone's throw from the bustling Da Tang Bu Ye Cheng (Grand Tang Dynasty Ever ...

Despite a ceaseless battle against government censors, he was celebrated as one of his country’s greatest auteurs, winning ...

Prior to the 1979 revolution, Iranian singer and actor Googoosh was a pop superstar. But she was jailed by the Islamic Republic and forced to agree to never sing or perform in public.

Among the ruins of ancient cities scattered across northeastern Spain, archaeologists have uncovered a grisly yet fascinating relic of the past: severed human skulls, pierced with iron nails, ...

Los Angeles, Dec 28 (UNI) Bahram Beyzaie, the distinguished Iranian filmmaker, playwright and cultural thinker whose work profoundly shaped modern Iranian cinema and theatre, has died, sources close ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Prominent Iranian film and theater writer-director Bahram Beyzaie died in the U.S. on Friday due to complications from cancer, ...

Despite some Western political forces continuing to run smear campaigns against Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, they won't deter the people in the region from embracing peace and ...