Bahar Movahed is a practicing orthodontist in Southern California. She's also a classically trained musician with a solo career, something she wasn't allowed to have in Iran, where women are ...

Iran is expanding restrictions on the distribution of news content from the country. In a directive, it instructed ...

Discover the vibrant comedy and music scene in Cape Town with the return of the Jive Cape Town Funny Festival and the launch of Good Hope FM's Original Sundaze event, featuring local and international ...

In an era where vocal pyrotechnics often take center stage, soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon has the goods, but she can deliver so ...

The destruction of Honiak Music Academy shows the devastating impact of the US-Israeli war on Iran’s creative spaces.

That's the question songwriter Rostam Batmanglij has been reflecting on in his new album,. Batmanglij, known mononymously as ...

This episode features four sets of music covering new releases and archival recordings in jazz, electronic, ambient, and points in between.

It has been said that Persian Gulf countries are both blessed and cursed by their vast oil and gas reserves. Geologic forces over millions of years have meant the region is an energy-rich global flash ...

The sounds of classical Persian music used to fill the rooms of the Honiak Music Academy in Tehran: the deft plucking of the setar, the ringing of the santur. It was the pride and joy of Iranian ...

In postwar America, an epidemic of heroin addiction swept the world of jazz. Greats who developed a habit included John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Miles Davis, and Charlie Parker. Nowadays, jazz has an ...

An AI-generated animation by China’s state broadcaster satirising the US-Israel war on Iran has gone viral, triggering a wave of user-made sequels online. First posted by CCTV on Wednesday, the ...

A woman carrying Iran's historic "Lion and Sun" flag leaps over fire during the Nowruz Fire Festival marking the Persian New Year, in West Vancouver, British Columbia. At 14:46 GMT on Friday, March 20 ...