The name Iran comes from the Indo-Iranian roots of the people who built early Persian civilisation.

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 ...

Introduction to Persian language and culture. By the end of the semester, students will have an overview of Persian grammar and will able to read and converse in Persian at a basic level. Class ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some people have strong reactions to art and music, others hardly any. In 2020, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (MPIEA) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, developed a ...

“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 ...

“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.