Between war, protests and government crackdowns, the filmmakers raced to finish and smuggle their portrait of Tehran's ...

Arash Azizi imagines a democratic, inclusive Iran after the 2022 protests—where culture, freedom, and pluralism can finally ...

Iranians’ demand for change is not a political preference, but a civilisational instinct; and a free Iran — rooted in its ...

A daughter of the Iranian diaspora grapples with feelings of hopefulness and futility during an extraordinary moment of protests.

Rock still maintains an aura of rebellion in Iran so it’s not surprising that it continues to show up in Iranian New Wave cinema. In 2008’s animated Persepolis, Marji buys heavy metal and punk albums ...

Over the past three weeks, Iran has crossed a terrifying threshold. The U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency has verified that as of early Thursday, at least 4,902 protesters have been killed ...

The Iranian Independent Filmmakers Association has stepped-up calls for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to reappraise its relationship with Iran’s government-controlled Farabi cinema ...

A South Windsor native with a passion for hip hop celebrates his Iranian heritage by putting pen to paper and capturing those words on a microphone. Shaheen Samadi, a 31-year-old UConn graduate, calls ...

“Shirin Neshat,” the latest show at the Miami Art Museum, with films and photographs of the exile Iranian artist, is a unique event, helping us to grasp the complexity of women’s struggle for social ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Richard Nedjat-Haiem, University of California, Santa Barbara (THE CONVERSATION) ...