From the very first generation, the Pokémon Persian has struck fear into our hearts because its appearance usually means that Giovanni isn't far away. Even Alolan Persian, its slightly goofy-looking ...

For most of my career as an education reform advocate, I have rarely spoken publicly about my Iranian identity. Like many ...

In 2025, Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel founded BIYA Biya Productions, a new company that combines creative consulting with producing events aimed at creating spaces for people from the SWANA diaspora to ...

Film drama set during World War II. Gilles, a Jewish man, is spared execution on the pretence that he can teach a camp officer Farsi, despite not knowing a word of the language. Show more World War II ...

It’s kind of a weird week this week. Not only is it an oddly small slate to begin with, but of the one or two semi-major titles out this week, I haven’t actually received my review copies yet at the ...

Set in Nazi-occupied France in 1942, the story begins when a young French Jew named Reza, the son of a Belgian rabbi, is captured by the Germans and forced into a truck on its way to a concentration ...

Join us on July 20 for the screening of Persian Lessons- at the Lavazza IncluCity Festival. The film is set in 1942. Along with other Jews, Gilles, a young Belgian man, is detained by the SS and sent ...

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Find out what’s new this week on streaming services such as Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+, Paramount+ and BritBox, as well as on DVD/Blu-ray. Inside Out 2 takes top spot at the weekend box ...

In the framing of the folk tale anthology “One Thousand and One Nights,” Scheherazade prolongs her life day by day with the stories she tells her murderous husband. Something similar, and similarly ...

The R-rated comedy One of Them Days opened to number during a quiet weekend at the movie theatres while Wolf Man opened in a disappointing third place. The damage of the Los Angeles wildfires has ...