Located in the Straits of Hormuz, the island of Qeshm has had a tumultuous history. Qeshm: The Hi...

Some of the most fascinating human epochs lie in the borderlands between history and mystery. So ...

Obeyd-e Zakani, who died in 1372 is among the great poets of Iran but little known in the West. T...

Links with the Hinterland focuses on two related themes: the importance of what goes on in a port...

Amir Abbas Hoveyda was a central figure in the historic struggle between modernity and tradition ...

Persian Text of the Poems in Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz, introduced and transla...

To the task of chronicling the waning years of Persia's Qajar court, Dust-Ali Khan 'Mo`ayyer al-M...

An Encounter with Dylan Thomas

The Chinese invented papermaking, which by the 8th century had reached the Muslim world in Samark...

In the interests of exploiting Iran's location and natural resources to launch a projected attack...

A remarkable woman who lived through extraordinary times, Houri Mostofi was born in Tehran, Iran,...

Iranian women have been writing Persian poetry for over a thousand years, and in the tumult of ou...