Iran has marked its annual fire festival. The festival is known as “Chaharshanbe Souri” in Farsi. It comes a week before ...

Masih Alinejad started rattling Iran’s rulers as a teenager. Now, men whom prosecutors say arranged for an assassin to kill her in New York are on trial in Manhattan.

The inaugural Bukhara Biennial will mark a pivotal moment in the country’s emergence as a contemporary art hub.

This year, against the backdrop of Ramadan and rising discontent, the celebrations took on an unmistakably political tone.