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 ...

Iran’s 'World War III' is one of three Persian-language contenders — along with Denmark’s 'Holy Spider' and the U.K.’s 'Winners' — aiming for spots on the Dec. 21 shortlist announcement. By Scott ...

Hassan Nazer's drama won the audience award in Edinburgh. By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent The British Academy has selected Winners, the Farsi-language drama from British-Iranian writer/director ...

Representations of Afghan cultural identity in the American consciousness are few and far between. It would be hard to dispute that the most famous of these representations is authored by Khaled ...

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 ...

Before teaching Persian at the University, Michelle Quay, visiting lecturer in language studies, spent several years working on a Persian poetry group at the University of Cambridge alongside Annabel ...

Makuochi Echebiri is a News Writer for Collider. He has been interested in creative writing from as far back as high school, and he would consume pretty much anything that’s film or TV. However, his ...

“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 ...

A Tower of Babel continues to flourish around the CN Tower as new census data shows Toronto remains a mosaic of languages. Forty-four per cent of Torontonians have a first language that is neither ...