Listen to series host and podcast contributor Megan Vahdat sit down with the director of UCLA’s Iranian music program, Dr. Shahab Paranj, to discuss the importance of sharing traditional Iranian music ...

A new donation has helped secure the future for UCLA’s Iranian music program. The program will hold the first fund-supported event “Classical Persian Music: Hossein Omoumi, from Isfahan to Irvine” on ...

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Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. A World in Trance, now in its fourth edition, has been host to some of the ...

Born in 1934 in Tehran, Esmaili was one of the most well-known tombak players in the country. Encouraged by his uncles (Morteza and Mustafa Gorginzadeh; trumpet and clarinet players), he went to the ...

Three albums in and this Persian/Irish four-piece band have taken flight. The album title is Farsi for the central point of a Persian rug’s design, where the patterns all meet, and it’s a fitting ...

KUWAIT, Aug 17 (KUNA) -- Music lovers in Kuwait were taken to the mystical land of Persia by the Iranian Nirez Troupe, which presented a colorful music recital at Abdulaziz Hussein Center Thursday ...