The moment Madonna handed an Oscar statue to Asghar Farhadi in late February in front of an estimated 39 million Americans, you knew 2012 was going to be a special year for Iranians.&nb MORE >>

A few good friends and I launched an ongoing project to resurrect old Persian melodies and add Western cheer to them only using instruments traditionally used in Celtic & Quebecois MORE >>

New York, March 19th, 2011 – For the first time ever, three community organizations have come together to organize the very first Persian New Year event in Manhattan to celebrate the MORE >>

New York, February 25, 2012 – Six successful years of festival production has been an adventure for New York-based not-for-profit, Persian Arts Festival, Inc. (PAF), an organization d MORE >>

Los Angeles, CA – February 7, 2011 – Sublime Entertainment and Soul Mining Productions present Death, A Very Serious Comedy, a satirical play about an Iranian-American’s surreal j MORE >>

Persian Arts Festival will host its 5th Annual Norooz Celebration on Saturday, March 26th at the 92Y Tribeca. The festival will feature the city’s largest and most original “Haftseen” MORE >>

I am happy to announce that the exhibition 'The Power of Iranian Steel: From Iron to the Crucible Steel' will be held by the Cultural Institute of Bonyad in Tehran from February MORE >>

Prince Ali Reza Pahlavi the second Son of the Late Shah and Shahbanou Farah took his life away in his Boston Apartment on Tuesday January 4th, 2011 at the age of 44. This is a Day of Gr MORE >>

Its no coincidence that so many holidays around the world fall around the same time. Usually holidays mark some kind of event in nature, like harvest, the coming of winter or the ar MORE >>

London - On 22 November 2010 Her Majesty Farah Pahlavi,Shahbanou of Iran attended a book launch party at London's Sothebys for ART& PATRONAGE: The Middle East in which she MORE >>

LOS ANGELES, CA, December 1, 2010 – Farhang Foundation announced today that it has selected the winner of its 2011 Nowruz Banner Contest, which had called on th MORE >>

Youth & Human Rights Defenders Collaborate at 7th Annual Human Rights Summit in Geneva. Held in the United Nations 'Palais des Nations' in Geneva, the event was attended by de MORE >>

  Literature and Persian Studies   - Prof. David Stronach: For his outstanding contribution in field of Persian Archeological Studies. - Ms. Homa Sabet Tavangar: Author, fo MORE >>

LOS ANGELES, CA, November, 1 2010 – Farhang Foundation and the University of Southern California (USC) announced today the launch of an Iranian Studies Initiative at the MORE >>

Arash: Kiosk is a project we started in Tehran a while ago. It’s a group of friends that started working on a series of songs that I had written, which eventually got released in the MORE >>

  An outstanding and rare private collection of oriental arms and armour captured and frozen in high quailty paper, best quality leather jacket encrusted with silver-inlaid inscri MORE >>

Eligible submissions must be original and visualize some aspect of Nowruz or Iranian heritage and submitted in high-resolution, printable .eps, .ai or .pdf formats. Once a design MORE >>

Iranian ­­Alliances Across Borders (IAAB) is proud to announce that the second biennial Student Summit will be held the weekend of November 5-7, 2010 at George Washington Univer MORE >>

Reza Boroon, composer, arranger and santoor player was born in Abadan, Iran, in 1980. While he was at primary school, he started learning tonbak (Persian goblet drum) and piano and MORE >>

I am truly happy to announce the new publication of my book, the Lexicon of Arms and Armor from Iran: A Study of Symbols and Terminology.With over 5700 entries, the book Lexicon of Ar MORE >>