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Protests across Iran escalated dramatically this week, largely fuelled by a call issued by Reza Pahlavi, which was ...

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Iranians took to the streets in new protests Friday to press the biggest movement against the Islamic republic in over three ...

PhD student Hammad Rind at Bangor University explores linguistic links between Welsh, Persian, and Urdu elegy traditions ...

TEHRAN (ANI) – To deepen cultural ties, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar announced that India has decided to include Farsi (Persian) as one of the nine classical languages in India under the New ...

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 ...

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