Leila Heller, the president of contemporary art galleries in New York and Dubai, happens to also be the author of one of the most beautiful cookbooks released this year. Titled "Persian Feasts" — and ...

Introduction to the second edition -- The land and peoples of Persia -- Persia in the early Islamic centuries -- Turkish rule in Persia: the great Saljiiq Sultanate at its height (431-485/1040-1092) - ...

After Sept. 11, 2001, journalists turned to Encyclopaedia Iranica to learn about Afghanistan, part of the "Iranian cultural continent." The staff of Iranica, headquartered at Columbia University's ...

LORD CURZON'S classic work on Persia, published in 1892, went out-of-print a few years later, and was never reprinted. Sir Percy Sykes made his debut in Persia in the following year, and but for ...

Scientists have traced the Persian walnut’s roots to a surprising prehistoric love story — a hybridization between two extinct walnut species around 3.45 million years ago. Fossil clues and ...