University of Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Weaving through the rooms of my Brisbane childhood home, carried on the languid, humid, sub-tropical air, was the sound of an ...

Tar player Siamak Sepehri (L), who leads the Iranian folk music band Rastak, listens as Farzad Moradi, the group's Kurdish lead singer, talks during an interview with Reuters in the Omani capital ...

NeekOn will feature Live Music, Dance (including a Persian Folklore Dance Flash Mob), Visual Arts, and Food from multiple cultures around the world. (Neek means kindness.) In addition there will be ...

In the Persian legend of the Seemorgh, a mythical bird carries an abandoned infant boy to her nest on a mountaintop and, when he returns to his people, gives him a magic feather for protection. The ...

Iranian electronic producers are having a moment. After decades of pushback by the Islamic Republic on Western influences, a new underground generation is using digital, lyricless sounds to challenge ...

, the “Music of Conflict and Reconciliation” concert is an opportunity to present their art in a global context. Though the Palestinian-born Shaheen and the Iranian-born Vali are known for seamlessly ...

Mohammad Reza Shajarian, whose distinctive voice quavered to traditional Persian music on state radio for years before he was blacklisted for supporting protesters after Iran’s contested 2009 election ...

The night began as Jewish celebrations often do — with the traditional dancing of the Hora. “Let’s get a circle going!” Edwin Tabrikian, known as DJ Taraneh, said to the crowd. The 34-year-old Iranian ...

University Artist-in-Residence Mohsen Namjoo has been described as the “Bob Dylan of Iran” by the New York Times — the Iranian pop singer and political advocate presented a lecture Wednesday entitled ...