Historically, weddings in Iran would last a week, with jashn va paykoobi (celebrating and dancing) every evening up until the wedding to the sound of instruments such as sorna, zar, and dombak.

As a Persian woman born in France and raised in San Francisco, Ms. Ansari, 38, knew she didn’t want a typical Sofreh Aghd. “I wanted to personalize it,” said Ms. Ansari.

The 116-year-old Persian Constitutional Revolution spawned the country's long tradition of protest, seen in recent demonstrations over cuts to food subsidies. Op-Ed: Iran protests have ties to a ...

Sadra Ford looked out the front window of the Persian cafe and watched people passing by storefront signs in the language of his native Iran. He grabbed the condiment bottle next to him and poured ...

Instead, having shuffled through scores of ideas, Keshavarz ends the film saluting all women fighting to live on their own terms — a struggle raging in Iran and beyond. The Persian Version Rated ...

An Iranian man jumps over a firework celebrating Chaharshanbe Souri, or Wednesday Feast, an ancient Festival of Fire on the eve of the last Wednesday of the Persian year, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday ...

Like Grammy, she's fearful of traveling to Iran, where she used to visit as a child, because of her past criticism of the Iranian regime, most recently during the Woman, Life, Freedom protests a ...

About half of "The Persian Version" is the story of Leila's mother, who, like Keshavarz's mother, grew up in Iran, entered into an arranged marriage at age 13 and went on to become a successful ...