In Iran, protest music has become a lifeline for those resisting the regime’s repression, blending cultural pride with defiance. Songs like Mehdi Yarrahi’s “Auschwitz” challenge official antisemitism ...
Amid deep geopolitical uncertainty, the Beijing workshop of Majid and Massoud Shamaeezadah preserves and shares Persian ...
In the 1950s, Younes Dardashti, a Jewish man from Tehran’s Jewish ghetto, became one of Iran’s most celebrated singers. As the country underwent rapid secularization under the Shah, Jewish communities ...