Born about 600 BCE in what is now southwestern Iran, Cyrus “the Great” is considered the founder of the Persian Achaemenid empire. He is remembered as “the Great” to distinguish him from his ...

None of his recent films are as strange and bewildering as “The Empire,” a science-fiction epic, where the action is split between a galactic void and the Opal coast in Northern France. After the ...

This update removes Kouzeh and Sholeh from the map, and adds in Valley favorite Didar Kitchen and Downtown Persian spot Shekarchi. Melody Barooni is a filmmaker, writer, and food journalist on a ...

The Book of Esther, which tells the story of "Jewish deliverance during the Achaemenid Persian Empire in around the 5th century BCE," is traditionally read from a handwritten scroll as part of ...