On September 13, 2022, Iran’s morality police detained Masha Amini for improperly wearing her hijab. Once in custody, Amini was...

On September 13, Mahsa Amini, a young Iranian woman, was detained in Tehran by the Iranian morality police. Three days later, she died in...

Persian rugs have long been seen as an international symbol of luxury, beauty, and ancient culture. In fact, the earliest-known Persian...

Stephen Kinzer is an award-winning author and journalist who spent more than twenty years working for The New York Times, primarily as a...

This May, the United States military moved the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, a large aircraft carrier, into the Persian Gulf, just off the...

Amidst the increasing tensions in Persian Gulf, the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei ordered Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards...

President Trump’s policy of “maximum pressure” has resulted in nothing but failure. The administration’s tendency to aggressively apply...

Insofar as the defeat of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) merits international delight, its emergence in Afghanistan has...

Inspired by the Arab Spring uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, a group of Syrian demonstrators took to the streets of Deraa to protest...

The mission statement of the Tehran Auction–one of Iran’s largest annual art events–proudly refers to a phenomenon that may appear...

After the Islamic Revolution of Iran in 1979, loyal supporters of Ruhollah Khomeini believed that he would advance the nation, uphold the...

An increase in the price of eggs rarely triggers any sort of commotion, let alone nationwide unrest and widespread rioting. But in Iran,...

On October 8, 2016, a U.S.-backed airstrike led by Saudi Arabia “wrongly” targeted a funeral ceremony in Sanaa, Yemen’s capital, killing...

Western countries routinely and almost systematically regard the Middle East as a historically conflict-ridden region, and the...

Women’s education level is often considered a significant indicator of modernity and socio-economic progress. Today, there is a major...

On August 19, 1953, tragedy struck Tehran, Iran’s capital city. Democratically-elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh was overthrown...

The first round of elections for the Majlis, Iran’s national parliament, changed the dynamic for political reformists throughout the...

In 2006, a teenage girl in Saudi Arabia was blackmailed, held at knife point and gang raped by seven Saudi men. As a response to this...

The following are two separate interviews presenting contrasting opinions on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, commonly known as...

After more than four years of violence, the Syrian Civil War is as much of a proxy struggle between major international actors as it is...