Is This Ta'arof?

Two girls explain how to get your look right when visiting an Iranian coffee shop:

Jadid Online has an interesting video tour of the Arab quarter of the Iranian city of Mashad. It's only 5 minutes long, with Persian co...

VICE magazine continues it's strong international reporting and focus on the people affected. There's a shortish online interview wi...

The Guardian reports on the conflict in Balochistan , Pakistan's largest province, between Balochs and the Pakistani military and ...

There's an oldish clip from 2009 of British late-night news show  Newsnight  about the Iranian band Font going to the UK to play music. ...

Nazanin Rafsanjani was a guest on popular NPR radio show This American Life  with Nancy Updike, during which Nazanin explained ta'arof. ...

Here's a nice extended quotation that gives some great examples of ta'arof in Iranian culture. It explains the pretence of being hum...

Classic Pink Floyd song Another Brick in the Wall  remade as  Hey Ayatollah, leave those kids alone! by Canadian band Blurred Vision: ...

Andrew Scott Cooper, author of a the book The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East...

Wrestler Reza Abedi's life story is full of escapes - from wrestling moves, tricky situations and ultimately, death at the hands of th...