Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has ordered government and cultural bodies to use modified Persian words to replace foreign words that have crept into the language, such as “pizzas” which will ...

Representations of Afghan cultural identity in the American consciousness are few and far between. It would be hard to dispute that the most famous of these representations is authored by Khaled ...

What to call the Persian language in Afghanistan? It's a question Afghans have grappled with and sparred over for decades. The long-simmering dispute was reignited after the BBC changed the name of ...

Farsi is the main language in Iran, which is the oldest country in the world. This Farsi that has been spoken through years, has been through changes which lead us to this language people in Iran are ...

One of the world’s bestselling musicians chose a Persian word as his song's title. It feels like a miracle. Ed Sheeran's Gift to Iranians I have a confession: I’m a middle-aged lawyer, mother of two ...