The upper class Jews of Persia are rapidly embracing the Bahai religion, and the Jewish communities are disintegrating, according to Dr. W. Fishel, lecturer in the Oriental Institute of the Hebrew ...

Loosely based on Maryam Keshavarz's own life, The Persian Version centers on an Iranian American woman who identifies as bisexual and whose mother entered into an arranged marriage as a teen.

Princess Iman Pahlavi, the granddaughter of Iran’s last shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was married in a traditional Iranian ceremony, according to her father, the exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi.

As winter fades in the Northern Hemisphere and the days grow longer, millions of people prepare to welcome Nowruz, the Persian New Year, which marks the arrival of spring and symbolises fresh ...

President Donald Trump is reportedly to rename the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Gulf ahead of his trip to the Middle East in the coming days. The expected announcement was first reported Wednesday ...

The West has stopped losing its religion After decades of rising secularism, Christianity is holding its ground—and gaining among the young. Share. Photograph: Getty Images.

A STUDY of recent carbonates in the Qatar area, Persian Gulf, is at present being made by the Koninklijke/Shell Exploratie en Produktie Laboratorium in the Netherlands, in association with V. C ...

He was the earliest known Jewish-Persian poet. We know very little about him, except that he seemed to have lived at the time of the great lyrical poet Hafiz — sometime in the 1300s.

He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before dying, aged just 32. Alexander the Great’s legacy has given him ...