US Returns to Pre-pandemic Travel Levels for Holiday Weekend

VOA — Americans are preparing to travel in large numbers over the July Fourth weekend as many people seek to return to traditional holiday routines following more than a year of pandemic... Read more »

U.S. Revival of Iran Nuclear Deal (BARJAM): Legal and Tax Implication of Money Transfer from Iran

Zaher Fallahi The U.S. President Joe Biden is determined to restore the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or BARJAM in Farsi. There have... Read more »

Interview with Siamak FarahBakhshian, Founder and CEO of InfoStreet, Inc.

Shahrokh Ahkami — Siamak FarahBakhshian passed away in 2021, we honor him by sharing an interview Persian heritage did with him in its Fall issue of 2012. Tell us about your childhood, moving... Read more »

Triumph of Self-Empowerment over Darkened Despotic Tyrant

Davood Rahni — Legend has it that once upon a distant past juncture, ZaHawk a mythological, tyrannical, unjust, and cruel despot, ruled over Persia. Confiscating an ambivalent hiatus with his absolute power,... Read more »

The Shahnameh as World Literature

Rasoul Sorkhabi The Shahnameh (or Shahnama, شاهنامه) of Ferdowsi (940-1020 AD) composed in Persian at the turn of the 11th century is the national epic of the Iranian and Persian-speaking peoples. This... Read more »

Faith or Religiosity Dogma vs. Human Spiritual Consciousness?  

Pirouz Azadi Throughout my lifelong quest to find god, I attended sermons in Zoroastrian, Hindu and Buddha temples, Jewish synagogues, Christian churches and Muslim mosques of no avail… and then epiphany darned... Read more »

Pieces of Iran: My Heart Became Whole in Iran

Nawal Qcasiano When I was 11, my mother sewed cash into the pocket of my pants and steeled herself against tears as she and my father prepared me to fly alone across... Read more »

The Narrative of a Purposeful Life for an International Artist (Hojat Amani) — Part One

Omid Karimi   Abstract This article discusses the use of life history as a kind of qualitative research method to learn more about the concept of ìpurposeî. The author tries to discover... Read more »

Threat of ‘broken heads, bloodshed’ as China’s Communist Party marks 100 years

RFI — Chinese President Xi Jinping has warned that anyone who tries to "bully" China will face "broken heads and bloodshed". Xi's defiant speech on Thursday hailing the country's rise elicited loud... Read more »

Women Make Up 60% of White House Staff, Diversity Total at 44%

VOA — Women make up 60% of the White House staff appointed by President Joe Biden, while people from racially or ethnically diverse communities account for 44%, the White House said Thursday... Read more »