Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iranian singer Googoosh has said she is “waiting for a change of regime to happen soon”, as the country faces renewed nationwide ...
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 ...
Onstage, along with world cinema-savvy Durling as moderator, were Kaouther Ben Hania ( The Voice of Hind Rajab ); Oliver Laxe (Sirat); Kleber Mendonça Filho ( The Secret Agent ); Jafar Panahi ( It Was ...
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 ...
All over Los Angeles, Zachary Asdourian hunted for the music of an Iran that could have been. The co-founder of the L.A. record label Discotchari scoured for dust-caked Persian pop records at Jordan ...
When Sadegh Nojouki fled Tehran for California in the wake of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, he assumed he’d be back home before long. At 29, he’d already established himself as an innovative force in ...
Iranian singer Googoosh has said she is “waiting for a change of regime to happen soon”, as the country faces renewed nationwide protests over economic hardship and political repression. “I am living ...