Abbas Kiarostami wasn’t the first Iranian director to explore these binaries, often by using moviemaking itself as a ...

Iran's economy is in freefall, with soaring inflation, a collapsing currency, and growing poverty pushing millions to the ...

As their purchasing power continues to plummet, more and more Iranians find it impossible to envision a future. Frustration ...

Behtash Sanaeeha and Maryam Moghaddam's "My Favorite Cake" was acclaimed at the 2024 Berlinale. Now they are being charged ...

Syria’s relations with Iran and Russia remain an open wound for its people after the nations backed autocratic President Bashar Assad during its long war.

Written and directed by director Matthew Rankin, the comedy presents a Persian-language-inflected Canada, getting at timely questions of homeland and belonging.

Half a century ago, Howard Brenton treated Nottingham to The Churchill Play, a dystopian provocation that envisaged prisoners ...

T oday’s mall has probably changed a lot from the shopping center where you bought your school clothes back in the day. Sure, ...

One of Canada's most idiosyncratic fantasists discusses the links between Iranian cinema, architecture, and cultural exchange.

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has warned that Iran continues to increase its monthly production ...

A Russian court has ordered an American man to be held in custody for 30 days after he was arrested at a Moscow airport on ...

Iran banned the import of foreign cars in 2017, while not allowing iPhones newer than the 13 to be registered on the ...