Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Poetry and Persian music are like needle and thread, the melody acting as a guide for ...

In a modern world filled with global uncertainty, inter-religious misunderstanding and subsequent animosity, music is a rare universal truth. Realizing the mystic words of medieval Muslim poet Jalal ...

Jessica Steinberg, The Times of Israel's culture and lifestyles editor, covers the Sabra scene from south to north and back to the center When Persian ethnic wind musician Amir Shahsar performs with ...