Mohammad Reza Shajarian, once dubbed "the Pavarotti of Persian classical music" by the Toronto Globe & Mail, had never been known as a particularly political person. That was before the widely ...

University of Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Weaving through the rooms of my Brisbane childhood home, carried on the languid, humid, sub-tropical air, was the sound of an ...

The producer Sote makes mind-melting electronic music at the center of a vital scene in Tehran. On his latest record, he applies his customary digital processing to traditional Persian instruments.

On Saturday, February 25, the Middle East Music Ensemble performed their annual Persian Concert in a packed performance hall at the Logan Center. Director Wanees Zarour led the ensemble, which ...