The department introduced language courses and coursework in Persian literature, cinema, art, history and cultural studies as ...

Introduction to Persian language and culture. By the end of the semester, students will have an overview of Persian grammar and will able to read and converse in Persian at a basic level. Class ...

Is Tajik a dialect of Persian? Or a language in its own right? What differentiates it from varieties prevalent in Afghanistan and Iran? There is no easy answer to these questions because the very ...

What to call the Persian language in Afghanistan? It's a question Afghans have grappled with and sparred over for decades. The long-simmering dispute was reignited after the BBC changed the name of ...

Representations of Afghan cultural identity in the American consciousness are few and far between. It would be hard to dispute that the most famous of these representations is authored by Khaled ...

scheduled to launch early next year. The channel will feature programming from across the world and will target the 100 million-plus speakers of the Farsi language, also known as Persian. Farsi is the ...

In “We Are From Iran,” a new exhibition at the Dairy Arts Center, Persian poster artists transform typography into a living ...

DUBAI — MBC, the Arab world’s most popular TV net, is launching Farsi-language channel MBC Persia in what marks another step in the multimedia group’s expansion into multiple-language offerings. The ...

Hassan Nazer's drama won the audience award in Edinburgh. By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent The British Academy has selected Winners, the Farsi-language drama from British-Iranian writer/director ...

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump posted tweets in support of protesters in Iran who took to the streets after the regime admitted it unintentionally shot down a civilian airliner last week, ...

“Universal Language” takes place in an imaginary, barely conceivable Canada that has taken in so many Iranian immigrants that road signs and graffiti are in Farsi, even in remote Winnipeg. At Tim ...