IRAN, a land with a civilization stretching back more than five thousand years, has always been one of the most significant ...

In Iran, hardline critics are waging a campaign against President Hassan Rouhani to limit his campaign pledge of opening Iran to more social and cultural freedoms. The "culture wars" are as old as the ...

Iranians’ demand for change is not a political preference, but a civilisational instinct; and a free Iran — rooted in its custodial ethic, committed to life and truth, and governed by those who love ...

The musical legend, who was punished for ‘moral decay’ and went into exile, now voluntarily withholds her voice in solidarity.

Mariam Abuhaideri calls herself a Persian Ladki — shorthand for “I am an Indian but my blood is Persian”. When the Pune-based ...

An interview with Nilou Yekta, an Iranian researcher at Utrecht University, who studies the visualization of secularity in contemporary Iran.