The Newroz holiday comes at a critical time, as Kurds in Turkey push for peace while their brethren in Syria and Iran fear further conflict.

Residents in the Rukn al-Din neighborhood of Damascus marked Newroz on Friday evening with a cultural celebration featuring ...

In Iran, Israeli and American strikes have killed more than 1,200 people. Middle Eastern artists in Nashville are channeling ...

Syria’s Ministry of Culture organized a festival in Damascus on Saturday to mark Newroz, the Kurdish New Year, with performances and ...

The Bonn Newroz festival is expected to draw tens of thousands of Kurds from across Europe, featuring music, national songs, ...

Yellow Letters and Emin Alper’s Salvation both won headline honours at the Berlin film festival and show dissenting cinema is thriving in the face of Erdoğan’s repression ...

Iran is richly diverse by region, ethnicity, religion and culture, and I’ve long dreamed to build Iran’s tourism industry.

Some of the artists represented aren't alive anymore, but their legend still lives on. Tammy Wynette is represented in the exhibition for her legendary career that continues to influence new artists ...

Berghahn book publishers announced the publication of "Lives in Fragments: Self-Narrative Sources and Biographical Approaches to the Armenian Genocide", edited by Eren Yıldırım Yetkin, Nazan Maksudyan ...

Nevertheless, images shared on social media show that, despite the heavy deployment of military and security forces ...

The festival became a political flashpoint well before the program reveal – but the featured works focus not on spectacle and slogan but on a polyphony of voices singing their own songs ...

We were on a bus to visit the beautiful city of Masuleh. And like any trip in Iran, the journey was just as much fun as the destination. Our tour ...