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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Iranian History 1945-79 / Houchang Chehabi -- Historiography of Modern Iranian Art / Hamid Keshmirshekan -- Redefining Modernism: Pluralist Art Before the 1979 Revolution / Fereshteh Daftari -- The ...

Horns roared, vibrantly-dressed performers twirled, and drummers stunned audiences. All of this and more were part of a lively celebration of Nowruz — the Iranian New Year — held at UCLA. Hundreds ...