AKBAR GANJI is an Iranian journalist. A former member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, he became a political ...

Zare Salman found himself entranced in the bustling streets of Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu Province, as ...

This holiday, Salman was one of millions drawn to China's booming cultural tourism sector. As the country marked its first ...

Learn more about groundbreaking genetic research that reveals a long-lost population and solves a centuries-old linguistic ...

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

The brilliance of Theodor Nöldeke's mind, his awareness of Greek literature, his knowledge of three Semitic languages, and his expertise in Persian and Middle Persian made him a distinguished ...

A new study reveals fresh clues about Indo-European language origins, tracing an ancestral group's key role in their spread.

A Swiss collector asserts that a sword in his collection, previously believed to be a replica, has been verified as the ...

With his first visit to Israel, the Dutch-Iranian scholar Afshin Ellian shows he won ... it’s unsurprising that the 46-year-old philosopher, poet and law professor dismissed suggestions ...

South Asia was once the eastern part of the Ancient Greek world, a pivotal yet little explored part of the Greek empire and ...

the Iranian auteur whose first films were produced by a similarly named organization based in Tehran. But you don’t have to be an international cinema-studies scholar to grab a hold of the ...