Erev Yalda is a new ritual that finds beautiful meaning in combining Hanukkah with the ancient Persian tradition of Yalda.

The Iranian Government has repeatedly suppressed press freedom through threats, intimidation, detentions, forced confessions ...

The Iranian peoples, or the Iranic peoples, are the collective ethno-linguistic groups who are identified chiefly by their native usage of any of the Iranian languages, which are a branch of the ...

PESHAWAR, Dec 19 (APP):Iranian consulate here celebrated the ancient Iranian and Asian festival, Shab-e-Yalda (Yalda night) with great enthusiasm providing traditional and spiritual ambiance for the ...

PESHAWAR: The ancient Persian festival ‘Shab-i-Yalda’ was ... festival stressed the need for cementing cultural ties among people for better mutual understanding and social cohesion.

In ancient Kurdish languages, Yelda meant "created light," referring to the birth of Mithra, the sun and light god.

Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Originally delivered as the Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lectures, Aspects of Kinship in Ancient Iran is an exploration of kinship in the archaeological and ...

The Iranian Minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts, Reza Salehi-Amiri has announced Iran's readiness to conduct joint research and ...

TEHRAN- The Iranian Minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts, Seyyed Reza Salehi-Amiri, met with Greece's ...

Children’s book author Mina Javaherbin is an architect as well as a writer, and her latest book was largely inspired by the architecture of her father’s hometown, Isfahan, Iran. In “My ...