O n a busy sidewalk outside a café, a group of young people, many of them women, bob their heads to the beat of “Seven Nation ...

A video from the event is going viral, prompting viewers to ask: Can one public performance shift the boundaries of what’s ...

1. Introduction -- 2. The invention of an ideal female national dancer in twentieth-century Iran -- 3. Mutribs and their dancers: the counter-ideal performers of new Iran -- 4. The cabaret dancer in ...

In the 1980s and '90s, following the Iranian Revolution, Los Angeles became the epicenter of Iranian pop music. A new album, Tehrangeles Vice, collects hits from some of the city's notable bands.

What happens when the pressure to compete is not just about winning, but about survival? In the new political thriller Tatami, that question plays out through the story of Leila Hosseini, an Iranian ...

A video from 2023 of a Georgian woman dancing in a rainy street in France has been miscaptioned online to describe it as depicting an Iranian woman mocking her government during its conflict with ...