When Sadegh Nojouki fled Tehran for California in the wake of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, he assumed he’d be back home ...

Iran's most-famous singer has written an account of her life as she embarks on a farewell tour. “Googoosh: A Sinful Voice” recounts a life shaped by both the political forces that have changed Iran in ...

Young people across Iran have been leading a dramatic change in social mores in recent months. “We have a fearless young generation that is breaking taboos.” Young people across Iran have been leading ...

“The stage is my first homeland,” 75-year-old Iranian singer Googoosh tells Newsweek from her Los Angeles home, noting that her second is Iran. A child performer who became one of the defining voices ...

The first time Googoosh was asked to write a memoir, the request came from Iran's Islamic Republic interrogators. Their goal was for the pop superstar to relay a “cautionary tale.” This, of course, ...

If you’re looking for a temperature check on the state of the planet’s ecological decline, this is it. For decades, Tehran has faced an oncoming water shortage, brought on by environmental changes, ...

Iran has been battling its worst drought in more than six decades. A blaze in the north has now eaten through parts of the old treasure. By Erika Solomon and Sanam Mahoozi A wildfire burning for more ...

In northeast Syria, Kurdish women are using music and performance to assert cultural identity, promote female empowerment and ...

“Iran simply can’t allow this impression to linger that we’ve been ahead of them every step of the way,” says an officer in an Israeli intelligence service. “They have to show that they can take us by ...

Rows of worshippers, some with their faces raised toward the sky, others with their heads bowed, prayed for rain at a mosque in Tehran earlier this month. Theirs is an increasingly desperate plea. The ...