When Sadegh Nojouki fled Tehran for California in the wake of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, he assumed he’d be back home ...

The music of Iranian composer Emanuel Melik Aslanian will be performed by one of his former students at a free concert at the Rancho Bernardo Library. Homa Massih Yazdani, who has lived in Rancho ...

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 ...

The Iranian Heritage Foundation hosted a vibrant concert featuring renowned Iranian-Azerbaijani singer Mansour, who put on a dazzling performance at the Illinois Conference Center on Saturday. Mansour ...

This post was updated Oct. 27 at 9:45 p.m. UCLA’s commitment to celebrating and preserving Iranian music continues to expand. On Sunday, the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music held a celebratory opening ...

1979’s Iranian Revolution saw millions of citizens fleeing the country in its aftermath. Amid this Iranian diaspora, many of these people emigrated to Los Angeles, with some of them being the same ...

Iranian pop icon Googoosh has revealed that her new music will release only after the current Islamic Republic regime in ...

The new album "Tehrangeles Vice" is a daring collection of Iranian disco and synthpop recorded in Los Angeles in the 1980s and 1990s. The term Tehrangeles refers to the Iranian American diaspora in ...

Iran's famed singer Googoosh recalls family, exile and life in the spotlight - Iran's most-famous singer has written an ...

A captivating video of an Iranian woman singer went viral in Iran, showing her performing in an empty venue for an imaginary audience. Parastoo Ahmadi, a singer and composer, held the performance in ...

The program offered a poignant tribute to Iranian culture, eloquently describing it with the following words: "Iran is a nation that carries the very emblem of the East upon its brow, with its music ...

While the United States continues to debate how and when hip-hop lyrics can be used in court, dissident Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi was sentenced to death on April 24 for lyrics that criticized the ...