Emmy-winning Shohreh Aghdashloo, who also received the first Academy Award nomination for an Iranian actress, leads us on a Persian food crawl. (Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times) Spending an ...

COSTA MESA – The air filled with Middle Eastern music and Farsi, children danced in colorful costumes, while kebab smoke wafted toward the sky. Members of the regional Iranian-American community ...

The pomegranate cocktails were flowing. The zoulbia, cookies made with rosewater, were laid out with tea. Oriental carpets covered the floors, and musicians played the santoor, a hammered dulcimer.

Shahbal Shabpareh and his band Black Cats — a premier Iranian American pop group — have performed American hits with a Persian twist at upper-crust Iranian celebrations almost weekly for years.

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook I am twelve years old, and my mother, grandmother and I are traveling to the northern part of Iran ...