Born in 1962 in Najaf, Iraq, Tabrizian is a high-ranked Shi’a cleric (an ayatollah) and a graduate of major Shi’a seminaries. Although he is currently the most prominent figure in Islamic medicine in ...

SMU professor writes that the best policy choice for the Trump administration and Iran is to empower the Iranian people while ...

The retired 76-year-old professor of political science was already serving an 18-month sentence for criticizing the Iranian ...

In 41 BC, Cleopatra hosted a dinner to celebrate the Roman leader Mark Antony, who was a well-known party animal. Twelve ...

Iran has a history behind its use of the F-14 Tomcat fighter, but its fleet of the jets have led to some friction over time ...

The exhibition juxtaposes sacred objects with contemporary critique, inviting us to consider whether modern reinterpretations of tradition clarify or distort the past.

Trump launched the week telling Americans that his administration would work to take "America’s destiny into our own hands" ...

There are still several March 2025 holidays and happenings, from daylight saving, a lunar eclipse and the first day of spring. Here's when they fall ...

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The 2022 protests hark to March 8, 1979, when Iranian women cowed clerics, writes Nobel winner Narges Mohammadi.

Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency says the Iranian foreign ministry has summoned the British ambassador over what it described as “baseless” accusations by British officials against Iran ...

In the late 1950s Pan-African activist Andrée Blouin contributed to Sékou Touré’s campaign for independence in Guinea, then ...