When the ancient Greeks faced the Persians in the Battle of Artemisium, they set the tone for the Battle of Salamis. Credit: wikimedia commons / Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany CC BY-SA 3.0 When the ...

The Temple of Athena Polias in Priene, an ancient Greek city at the base of Mycale’s escarpment, the battleground where Greeks and Persians clashed in history. Credit: Flickr / Egisto Sani CC BY-NC-SA ...

The women in Tehran-born Sanam Mahloudji’s debut novel The Persians — shortlisted for this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction — know this very intimately. In a dream, one of them is ...

He wanted to make it like other non Persians would experience a wedding for the first time, and how full on, but fun it is. I found it was so similar in ways to the Irish weddings I grew up going ...

She sees groups of men, individuals, young, and old men. This is history’s great blind spot — to read and often wonder, as Bita does, where the women are. In The Persians, that course is corrected in ...

But by the end of “The Persians,” the debut novel from Sanam Mahloudji, you too might be affectionately referring to her as “Auntie Shirin.” Indeed, “Auntie Shirin” is the title of ...

From soft fur to bright eyes, these cats are truly beautiful.

The American Shorthair is calm and friendly, making it perfect for small homes.

“It’s been a really fun process because the more it’s been out and Persians have known about it, the more I get to learn stuff.” It’s not the first time Sheeran has used his musical ...