Hand woven with the finest materials including wool and silk, a single Persian rug can often take years and sometimes decades to create. A high-quality Iranian carpet can cost tens of thousands of ...

With fewer tourists coming and increasing difficulties in making international transactions, the centuries old market for ...

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The event featured an elegant display of Malaysia’s Songket and Batik fabrics alongside Iran’s famed Persian rugs, highlighting the craftsmanship and historical significance of these art forms. In his ...

As if we needed an excuse... Persian rugs may appear to be innocuous cultural artefacts – prized in apartments from Doha to Paris as signifiers of wealth and taste. They are also a foundation stone of ...

We were able to eliminate a couple of contenders immediately: one rug that felt more like a dish towel, and another that looked like a thin, faded ghost of a Persian rug. We set the rest up in the ...

tweeted a thread of "facts about Iran" that included a list of political, intellectual, and cultural accomplishments in Persian history, as well as some of the "endless" achievements of Iranian ...

Iran's state-run IRNA news agency says a militant attack near the Pakistani border with Iran has left five Iranian forces ...

A prominent Iranian American human rights activist has expressed shock but also defiance about Iranian murder-for-hire plots ...

She gives us each a simple form to fill out while she outlines the rules, saying visitors must always be accompanied and ...

Masih Alinejad is known for her outspoken criticism of the Iranian government and spoke in defiance after the DOJ's recent unsealing.