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 ...

Stay on top of what’s happening in the Bay Area with essential Bay Area news stories, sent to your inbox every weekday. Bay Area-raised host Ericka Cruz Guevarra brings you context and analysis to ...

Eastern tunes were oozing through the chinks of the closed door, then expanding and filling every corner, kindling the interest of people passing by. The only sound that would break the serenity and ...

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Shahrzad Khorsandi and Farima Berenji, both Bay Area performers of Iranian descent, are on a special mission to preserve the spiritual heritage of Persian dance. “I always danced informally. It’s so ...

In today?s political world, relations between the United States and the Middle East are often edgy if not explosive. But a new production organized by the Eastern Arts group at the University of Utah ...

Seven professors at Iran's Kermanshah University have been fired after a video of them performing a Kurdish folk dance at a graduation ceremony went viral, angering university officials. The video ...

NowRuz, the Persian New Year, is the most important and sacred event on the Iranian calendar. It is celebrated by millions of people, and, according to United Nations, by close to 15 countries – ...

NowRuz, the Persian New Year, is the most important and sacred event on the Iranian calendar, dating back millennia. The holiday is tied directly to the exact moment that planet Earth, our cradle of ...