Dropbox’s Billionaire Co-Founder Arash Ferdowsi, Ex-MIT Student, Leaves Company
By Nazanine Nouri
Arash Ferdowsi is a pioneering Iranian-American entrepreneur who co-founded Dropbox --the cloud-based file-syncing service -- in 2007 with Drew Houston, a fellow student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Thirteen years later, Dropbox...
Who’s Leading the UAE’s Mission to Mars? The Iranian-Born Scientist Sarah Al Amiri
By Nazanine Nouri
Sarah Al Amiri is an Iranian-born émigré to the United Arab Emirates. The 33-year-old is also the scientist in charge of the Arab world’s first interplanetary mission: the UAE’s mission to Mars.
Al...
Googoosh Pays Tribute to Dead Iranian Protesters In Sold-Out Paris Mega-Concert
By Nazanine Nouri
Googoosh took Paris by storm with a sold-out concert at the 3,700-seat Palais des Congrès on December 20, bringing audiences to their feet in a performance that drew laughter and tears and...
Astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli To Be Spacecraft Commander of 2023 NASA SpaceX Mission
By Nazanine Nouri
On March 24, NASA and the European Space Agency announced the selection of two astronauts to launch on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission to the International Space Station: NASA’s Jasmin Moghbeli as the...
Iranians Picnic Indoors As They Celebrate Sizdah-Bedar, 13th Day of New Year
By Nazanine Nouri
This week’s celebrations of the 13th day of Norouz -- Sizdah Bedar -- have been clouded by the Coronavirus outbreak in Iran, as millions of Iranians have been prevented from picnicking outdoors...
Half-Iranian Eurovision Contestant Barbara Pravi Draws Comparisons With Edith Piaf
By Nazanine Nouri
Barbara Pravi is a half-Serbian, half-Iranian singer-songwriter who finished second in the Eurovision Song Contest last month after representing France with her song “Voila.” It was France’s highest score in 30 years,...
“From Miniskirt to Hijab”: Author Jacqueline Saper Discusses Her Memoir
By Nazanine Nouri
Jacqueline Saper is an Iranian-American author, speaker and lecturer based in Chicago whose memoir "From Miniskirt to Hijab: A Girl in Revolutionary Iran" won the Chicago Writers Association 2020 Book of the...
Director Ana Lily Amirpour to Compete at Venice Film Festival With ‘Mona Lisa’ Movie
By Nazanine Nouri
The Iranian-American director Ana Lily Amirpour -- who won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 2016 for her horror movie “The Bad Batch” -- will be back in...
Billionaire Shervin Pishevar, An Investor in Zoom, Promotes Zoom’s New ‘Zapps’ App Store
By Nazanine Nouri
Shervin Pishevar, the billionaire Iranian-American serial entrepreneur and investor, has watched Zoom, a company he’s invested in, thrive during the pandemic. He’s now hoping for more exponential growth with the launch of...
PREVIEW: ‘Epic Iran’ Exhibition Opens at London’s V&A on May 29; No Loans From...
By Nazanine Nouri
The Victoria & Albert Museum in London — the world’s leading museum of art and design — is hosting the U.K.’s biggest exhibition of Iranian art, design and heritage in nearly a...
