The Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies hosted a culture and language day on Tuesday to commemorate the introduction of a newPersian studies concentration this fall that will be housed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Following President Trump's reaction to the Iranian regime's mass slaughter of protesting citizens with a buildup of U.S. forces in the Gulf, and with the abrupt cancellation of and then change of ...

Growing up in Iran, Nick Zahab often narrated imaginary soccer games to put his little brother to sleep. These days, he keeps Iranian Laker fans awake as the play-by-play man for radio station KIRN’s ...

“Baba Joon,” a Farsi-language movie made by an Iranian-Israeli director and a group of Iranian-born actors, will be Israel’s entry in this year’s Academy Awards. The film will be entered in the best ...

“The Farsi language is a poetic language,” says Masud Valipour, owner of Ketabsara Persian Calligraphy and Books in Westwood’s Persian Square. He gestures along the store’s walls where turquoise, jade ...

“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 ...