NPR's Andrew Limbong speaks with Iranian-American writer Kaveh Akbar about how he's processing the U.S. strikes again Iran through writing.

Flight tracking sites show three Iranian aircraft, including the presidential plane, headed to Oman. There is no official comment, but analysts estimate the flights most likely are Iranian ...

With his biblically-inspired piece, "Woman Life Freedom," Khalili aimed to draw attention to who he sees as the modern-day Esthers—the Jewish orphan who became a Persian queen and saved her ...

Panahi’s films are full of small moments that build into bigger truths – part of the heritage of Iranian social cinema. In The Circle (2000), different women move through Tehran facing rules ...

An Iranian missile has struck Soroka Medical Center in southern Israel, leaving extensive damage and several wounded. The strikes came as part of a wave of missiles that also hit a high-rise ...

The exhibit was the first of “Merge” – a series of events designed to introduce students to a more complete Iran by presenting lesser-known elements of Iranian culture such as art, music, literature ...

The US is assisting Israel in intercepting Iranian ballistic missiles that have been launched at the country this evening, Axios reports, citing an Israeli official.

Trashed Picassos? But what we do know is that a woman named Rose Valland saved tens of thousands of works. Valland is the real-life heroine of “The Art Spy,” a curator at Jeu de Paume Museum ...

Meeting with curator Kelly Cahn and COL’s founder Callie Jones on the morning of the exhibit's opening, they explained how common misappropriation is for women in the art industry. In defiance ...

(Trading Chinese silk for Persian horses helped create the Silk Road.) When the warrior statues were first produced, they were painted in rich, bright colors. The first emperor regarded himself as ...

American warplanes dropped bombs on three nuclear sites in Iran, bringing the U.S. military directly into Israel’s war. In an address from the White House, President Trump threatened more action ...

Costumed in robes and ragged furs, he painted himself as a gold-gowned priapic priest with an ambitious erection, and painted naked women defecating. Like a post-modern monk he rode the shock-art wave ...