— February 15, 2022 I want to first thank Dr. Minoo Varzegar for inviting me to speak at this program. Dr. Varzegar is well known in the Persian cultural community in New... Read more »

The Mysteries of Mithras (Simon and Schuster) Payam Nabarz This book is an overview of Mithraism, the ancient Iranian mystery religion popular in the Roman Legions. It provides a comprehensive history of... Read more »

Reza Vaghefi — Introduction: The American University of Beirut, Lebanon was built in 19th Century inaugurating in 1864. This magnanimous act was accomplished during the height of Ottoman Empire. At above the... Read more »

SPIDERS You the real Black widow, the hero of the bugs, you eat many gross things like mosquitos and slugs. Without you we would be bitten by mosquitos in the air, without... Read more »

By: C.N. (The following article was sent to Persian Heritage and does not represent the opinion of the magazine) Years later and during the reign of his son, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi,... Read more »

Samak Ayyar (A Tale of Ancient Persia) Translated by: Freydoon Rassouli              Adapted by: Jordan Mechner The adventures of Samak, a trickster-warrior hero of Persia’s thousand-year-old oral storytelling tradition, are beloved in Iran.... Read more »

Sender: Jafar Sepehri The most ambitious effort to turn postage stamps into an instrument of official propaganda, and to disseminate the ideology of the Pahlavi state, formed the already mentioned set of... Read more »

Rasool Sorkhabi, Ph.D. Children’s and juvenile books are among the primary resources conveying information about overseas countries. This article compiles a bibliography of children’s and juvenile books published in English about Iran... Read more »

By Bavand Karim America is obsessed with race, and Iranian-Americans have long been a casualty of that obsession. There is an idea of us as a cultural group, but whether or not... Read more »