Majority of members of Persian Language and Literature Academy in Iran are against President Hassan Rouhani`s program on teaching ethnic groups` mother tongue in the schools, Iran's Mehr news agency ...

The State Department has appointed a Persian-language spokesperson for the first time, and he could appear on Iran’s state-owned media. The move seems to be part of an increased effort by the Obama ...

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 ...

I have the dubious distinction of having always lived in a country whose language I did not know well enough. In the winter of 1954, at the age of seven, I went with my parents to England, where I was ...

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 ...

A new documentary about the acclaimed Iranian actress Taraneh Alidoosti, detailing her outspoken support for the “Women, Life ...

Voice of America has rehired it’s Persian language staff following an escalating military conflict between Iran and Israel Thursday and Friday. Following a sidelining from the Trump administration, ...

“Reading books is a human right,” Bijan Khalili said on Public Radio International’s “The World” last month. Then, a few weeks later, he closed the doors to his Persian-language bookstore, Ketab Corp.