Jazz singer Nat King Cole helped his new wife, Maria Hawkins, cut the five-tier wedding cake at their Harlem reception in ...

Another royal wedding rolled around in 1960, when Princess Margaret joined Antony Armstrong-Jones at the alter in Westminster ...

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

Born Faegheh Atashin, she’s been known as Googoosh since birth. In her new memoir, “Googoosh: A Sinful Voice,” the singer ...

The look immediately recalls Madonna’s style during her “Blond Ambition” tour era in 1990. The habitual cone bra wearer ...

“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 ...

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 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, ...

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 ...

More than half the members of Iran’s parliament have accused the judiciary of failing to properly enforce the law on mandatory headscarves, state media reported Tuesday, with some Iranian women now ...