"Unrolling Paradise," an installation by artist Maryam Bayat, is inspired by a childhood in the fertile forests of Iran, her ...

Opinion: Foreign policy is weakest when it is shaped by distance rather than exposure to its costs.

That configuration has weakened. What is emerging is not disorder, nor a simple transfer of leadership, but a more diffused and negotiated balance in which external powers overlap and regional actors ...

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Oriental rugs can range in price from under a hundred dollars for a machine-made imitation to millions of dollars for a museum-quality antique masterpiece. What accounts for this extraordinary range?

Four hundred years ago, Isfahan was larger than London and more cosmopolitan than Paris. The city's most famous bridge, Si-o Seh Pol (Bridge of 33 Arches) is nearly 1,000 feet long and 45 feet wide.

Tehran, Iran, March 25, 2008--Selling handmade Persian carpets used to be brisk business in Iran, but the trade now faces uncertainty amid growing automated competition at home and abroad. Weaving the ...

This tool lets you see events, add and organize notes from daily to yearly on the Persian calendar, use templates with placeholders, and works with all Obsidian daily plugins. این افزونه در مخزن ...

Anoosh Shariat, the executive chef at Park Place on Main in Louisville, Kentucky, likes to use supertart dried sour cherries in this buttery, fragrant rice dish. But raisins, dates or pecans are also ...

The Graeco-Persian Wars, sometimes referred to as simply the Persian Wars included some of the most epic clashes in human history. Spanning a 50-year period, these conflicts between the Greek ...