In the 1950s, Younes Dardashti, a Jewish man from Tehran’s Jewish ghetto, became one of Iran’s most celebrated singers. As the country underwent rapid secularization under the Shah, Jewish communities ...

The sounds of classical Persian music used to fill the rooms of the Honiak Music Academy in Tehran: the deft plucking of the setar, the ringing of the santur. It was the pride and joy of Iranian ...

That's the question songwriter Rostam Batmanglij has been reflecting on in his new album, American Stories. Batmanglij, known ...