Remembering Lily Afshar, Master of Classical Guitar, University of Memphis Professor
By Nazanine Nouri
The internationally renowned classical guitarist Lily Afshar passed away at the age of...
Prima Ballerina Haydeh Changizian Dreams of Reopening A Ballet School in Iran
By Katy Shahandeh
Haydeh Changizian is an artist with an illustrious past. Formerly a Prima Ballerina...
Kayhan Life Interviews Niyaz, the Iranian Musical Duo
By Ahmad Rafat
Niyaz is an Iranian musical duo created by the singer Azam Ali —...
Getty Villa’s Open-Air Persian Concerts Feature Fared Shafinury, Awardwinning Setar Virtuoso
By Fred Parvaneh
On June 25, 2022, Farhang Foundation, a nonprofit organization established to celebrate and...
Iran Arrests Four Female Vocalists; Women Face More and More Constraints
By Kayhan Life Staff
Authorities in Minab, in the southern province of Hormozgan, arrested four female...
INTERVIEW: Israeli-Iranian Singer Liraz Charhi to Debut Her Album “Zan” In London Concert
By Ahmad Rafat
Liraz Charhi, a 31-year-old Israeli Singer of Iranian descent, will debut her album...
INTERVIEW: Singer Niaz Nawab Fuses Persian Poetry With Western Sound
By Fred Parvaneh
Niaz Nawab is an Iranian-born singer, songwriter, multi-instrumental musician, and music teacher currently...
INTERVIEW: Hollywood Soundtrack Composer, Niyaz Founder Loga Ramin Torkian
By Fred Parvaneh
Loga Ramin Torkian is an Iranian-born instrumentalist and composer and co-founder of the...
Singing About Hijab: Pop Vocalist Golazin Speaks to Kayhan Life
By Ahmad Rafat
Golazin Ardestani, better known as “Golazin” or “Gola,” is an Iranian-born Trap pop...
Googoosh Embarks on World Tour, Releases Album 21 Years After Her Comeback
By Nazanine Nouri
Googoosh, one of the most influential Iranian pop artists of all time and...
Salman Rushdie, Author Targeted by Iran Regime ‘Death Fatwa’ Releases New Novel After Stabbing...
By Jonathan Allen
NEW YORK, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Salman Rushdie's new novel "Victory City" will be published on Tuesday, nearly six months after a man repeatedly stabbed the...
Remembering Iradj Bagherzade: Celebrated Publisher, Founder of IB Tauris
By Kayhan Life Staff
Iradj Bagherzade, a leading international publisher of books on Middle East politics and history, passed away at his home in London...
Iran’s Government Closes Children’s Libraries to Cut Costs
By Kayhan Life Staff
The Iranian government recently announced its plan to close some 1,000 libraries belonging to the Institute for the Development of Children...
Author Nazila Fathi, Ex-New York Times Reporter, Releases Children’s Book
By Nazanine Nouri
Nazila Fathi is an Iranian-American author and a former New York Times reporter in Tehran.
Fathi emigrated to Canada and later the U.S....
“Exiles from Paradise”: Novelist Brigitte Adès Explores the Life of Iranians in the West
By Firouzeh Nabavi
Brigitte Adès is a French journalist and author who, for the past 25 years, has been the UK bureau chief of the...
Heritage
Soccer- Iran’s Persepolis Draws With Saudi’s Al Nassr at Asian Champions League
By Michael Church
Nov 27 (Reuters) - Al-Nassr booked their place in the knockout rounds of the Asian Champions League on Monday as the Saudi Pro League side claimed a 0-0 draw with Iran's Persepolis despite playing most of the game in Riyadh with 10 men.
The point...
Soccer- Iran Downs Hong Kong in Asian World Cup Qualifiers
By Michael Church
HONG KONG, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Talking points from the week in Asian football:
ASIA BIG GUNS RECORD EASY WINS IN WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS
Japan, South Korea, Australia, Iran and Saudi Arabia all recorded comfortable wins as the second phase of Asia's preliminaries for the 2026 World Cup...
Soccer-Goals Flow for Iran at Asia’s World Cup Qualifying
By Michael Church
OSAKA, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Japan, South Korea, Australia and Iran notched up comfortable wins on Thursday as the second phase of Asia's preliminaries for the 2026 World Cup kicked off for the region's dominant nations with few surprises and a flurry of goals.
Japan's Ayase Ueda scored a...
Soccer- Iran’s Sepahan Makes Strides in Asian Champions League
By Michael Church
Nov 6 (Reuters) - Al-Ittihad head coach Nuno Espirito Santo's hopes of keeping his job suffered a blow as the Saudi Pro League side slumped to a 2-0 loss at Iraq's Air Force Club in the Asian Champions League on Monday.
Second half goals from...
Soccer-Sepahan Handed Fine, Stadium Ban After Al-Ittihad Cancellation
Nov 3 (Reuters) - Iran's Sepahan have been handed a $200,000 fine by the Asian Football Confederation and banned from playing at their Nagsh-e-Jahan stadium after last month's Asian Champions League clash with Saudi Arabia's Al-Ittihad was cancelled.
Sepahan have also been given a 3-0 defeat in...
Soccer-Neymar on Target as Al-Hilal Defeated Iran’s Nassaji Mazandaran
By Michael Church
Oct 3 (Reuters) - Neymar scored his first goal since his high profile move to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday as Al-Hilal defeated Iran's Nassaji Mazandaran 3-0 in Tehran's Azadi Stadium in the group phase of the Asian Champions League.
The Brazilian, who moved to the Saudi...
Cartoon of the Week
*Free Subscription, for a Limited Time
Some 270 Iranian Cities Are Experiencing Severe Water Shortage, Officials Say
By Kayhan Life Staff
A total of 269 cities are facing water shortages across Iran, although emergency measures have prevented disruptions in the water supply,...
Iran Shuts Down for Two Days Because of ‘Unprecedented Heat’
DUBAI, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Iran has announced Wednesday and Thursday this week will be public holidays because of "unprecedented heat" and told the elderly and people...
Large Areas of Iran Suffer Severe Drought; Human Lives At Risk
By Kayhan Life Staff
Entire areas of the northern, north-central, and central provinces of Alborz, Yazd, and Semnan in Iran are affected by severe drought,...
Toxic Smog: Iran’s Government Criticised for Winter ‘Air Pollution Catastrophe’
Disclaimer: This asset – including all text, audio and imagery – is provided by Thomson Reuters Foundation. Reuters Connect has not verified or endorsed the...
ANALYSIS: Mapping Iran’s Biodiversity Hotspots To Create New Protected Areas
Disclaimer: This asset – including all text, audio and imagery – is provided by The Conversation. Reuters Connect has not verified or endorsed the...
Earthquake Victims in Northwest Iran Get Poor Emergency Aid
By Kayhan Life Staff
Failure to provide emergency aid to the victims of a 5.9-magnitude earthquake that struck Khoi and surrounding villages, in the northwestern...
WASHINGTON, Nov 29 (Reuters) - A U.S. Navy warship in the Red Sea shot down an Iran-produced drone launched from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, U.S. Central Command said on Wednesday, in the latest defensive move by the U.S. military in the region in...
WASHINGTON, Nov 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department said on Wednesday it had imposed sanctions on 21 Iranian and foreign nationals and entities for their involvement in financial networks to benefit Iran's defense ministry and other parts of its military.
In a...
By Natasha Phillips
Iran’s regime has been actively involved in the Israel-Hamas war since it began on Oct. 7, but there is no evidence to suggest that it helped plan the initial attack, Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Conricus, the international spokesperson...
ANKARA, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi discussed on a call on Sunday the importance of Muslim countries, especially Turkey and Iran, taking a common stance against "Israeli brutality in the Palestinian territories."
"Israel's unlawful...
By Kayhan Life Staff
Girls and boys enrolled in schools in Iran should work from different textbooks, Education Minister Reza Morad Sahraei has announced. He made the announcement during the closing ceremony of the National Behin Dokht Festival earlier this...
DUBAI, Oct 22 (Reuters) - An Iranian Revolutionary Court sentenced two journalists to years in prison for their coverage of the death in custody of Kurdish-Iranian Mahsa Amini last year, state media reported on Sunday.
The death of 22-year-old Amini last September while...
DUBAI, Oct 22 (Reuters) - A teenage Iranian girl, who fell into a coma earlier this month following an alleged encounter with officers over violating the country's hijab law, is said to be "brain dead", Iranian state media reported on Sunday.
Right groups such as Kurdish-Iranian...
By Doina Chiacu
WASHINGTON, Oct 18 (Reuters) - The United States issued new sanctions Wednesday on people and companies based in Iran, Hong Kong, China and Venezuela for enabling Iran's ballistic missile and drone programs,the Treasury Department said.
The sanctions target those who have supported the Islamic...
London, New York and San Francisco Present "We Are One #iran Short Film Festival" Highlighting Iran's Women's Rights Advocacy
London, November 29, 2023
New York City, December 7, 2023
San Francisco, December 10, 2023
London, New York, and San Francisco unite in a...
By Kayhan Life Staff
The first-ever festival of short films by Iranian women is opening this week in London.
A strong collection of short films explore the diverse dimensions of life in today's Iran, offering unique insights into recent events.
The festival...
By Paul Caruana Galizia
Tortoise Media
(The following podcasts are by the award-winning reporter Paul Caruana Galizia for Tortoise Media, a U.K. news site dedicated to long-form, investigative journalism. They are being published by Kayhan Life in partnership with Tortoise Media.)
Award-winning...
London, 10 December 2022 – Persia’s Independent Panel of Scholars chose two outstanding Iranian women as inaugural recipients of its Ansari Scholarship for Human Rights & Public Service.
Persia Educational Foundation established the Ansari Scholarship in remembrance of its Founder,...
