Award winning Filmmaker Ramin Bahrani Has A Netflix Hit With ‘White Tiger’
By Nazanine Nouri
The awardwinning Iranian-American director Ramin Bahrani’s “The White Tiger” is streaming on Netflix and topping the charts -- as well as garnering critical acclaim. The film is set in India, and based...
Katty Biglari’s Paris Drawings Go On Show in DC, Get Washington Post Coverage
By Nazanine Nouri
Katty Biglari is an Iranian artist whose delicate new drawings of Paris have gone on show in Washington, D.C. -- and received coverage in the Washington Post.
Her exquisite views of the French...
After Super Bowl Halftime Performance, The Weeknd’s Co-Manager Esmailian Celebrates
By Nazanine Nouri
The Weeknd, the Grammy-award winning R&B singer, stunned as many as 91 million Super Bowl viewers earlier this month with his halftime performance. It was a feather in the cap of Weeknd’s...
Making Super Bowl History: Iranian-American Coach Maral Javadifar
By Nazanine Nouri
For the first time ever in the history of the Super Bowl, Iranian-American Maral Javadifar was one of three women to be on a coaching staff on Sunday. Javadifar, an assistant strength and conditioning...
Truck Designer to the Stars: Rezvani Motors Delivers World’s Most Powerful 6X6 Pickup Truck
By Nazanine Nouri
The world’s most powerful 6x6 pickup truck -- dubbed ‘the god of all trucks’ -- has just been unveiled by Rezvani Motors, a California-based carmaker and designer founded by Iranian-American Ferris Rezvani....
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...
All About Shab-e Yalda, Ancient Persian Festival Marking Winter Solstice
By Nazanine Nouri
Since time immemorial, Iranians around the world have celebrated the ancient Persian festival of Shab e Yalda, the longest and darkest night of the year -- or winter solstice.
Yalda is a deeply...
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...
Google’s ‘Security Princess’ Parisa Tabriz Battles for Web Safety, Gender Balance
By Nazanine Nouri
Parisa Tabriz is one of the most sought-after executives in the cybersecurity world. Her business card identifies her as Google’s “Security Princess”-- a title she came up with herself. She is the...
PROFILE: Venice Festival Awardwinner Shahram Mokri Makes Film About Cinema Fire
By Nazanine Nouri
This year’s Venice Film Festival gave a prestigious award to the Iranian director Shahram Mokri: He won the best original screenplay award in the festival’s parallel ‘Orizzonti’ section for his latest film,...
