“Food is a common language around the world. It doesn’t need translating. It doesn’t need explanation,” Atoosa Sepehr says. Its real magic, as she shows in From a Persian Kitchen, the 2018 cookbook on ...

The reality star recently said his marriage is stronger than ever STRICTLY viewers have slammed the judges ‘diabolical’ scoring after Thomas Skinner’s Paso Doble dance. Thomas, 34, who confessed to ...

If an Iranian taxi driver waves away your payment, saying, “Be my guest this time,” accepting their offer would be a cultural disaster. They expect you to insist on paying—probably three times—before ...

As the institutions on THR’s annual list prepare the next generation for the future, many are turning to virtual production, LED walls and, yes, AI. By Mia Galuppo Senior Entertainment Reporter ...

Fatma Hassona, the Palestinian photojournalist whose death in an Israeli missile strike has sparked global outrage, was the victim of a targeted assassination, Iranian director Sepideh Farsi told ...

“Universal Language” takes place in an imaginary, barely conceivable Canada that has taken in so many Iranian immigrants that road signs and graffiti are in Farsi, even in remote Winnipeg. At Tim ...

Winnipeg-raised filmmaker Matthew Rankin won the Best Canadian Discovery Award at the Toronto International Film Festival this weekend for his film Universal Language, a surreal comedy set in Manitoba ...

Roya Shaji, a 38-year-old doctor, serendipitously met 41-year-old Mani Rassolian, also a doctor, on an escalator at a conference in Toronto. After a speedy courtship, a private engagement in High Park ...

Sonnenfeld is the Lester Crown Professor of Leadership Practice and President of the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute at the Yale School of Management—the world’s first school for incumbent ...

Old-world values and modern problems collide in this comedy about a large Iranian-American family coming to terms with an emergency. Patriarch Ali Reza (Bijan Daneshmand) is ill and the clan is ...

“I am nothing like my mother” – famous last words for the woman who discovers that sooner rather than later, she turns into a mirror image of the one she loves to hate. Maryam Keshavarz’s The Persian ...