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(Click on Image to watch video) This is Segment 1 of my video "Iran's Magical Persia", posted on YouTube. The feature-length documentary...

Before leaving Iran, it is only fitting in a way that I/we step away from the beauty and progressive qualities on display in the country...

On the western side of Isfahan’s grand square looms the Ali Qapu, a towering pavilion topped by pillars, under reconstruction, and behind...

It's early morning, late September. I stride across Meidan-e Shah Square (the massive Royal Square) in old town Esfahan (or Isfahan),...

In the wilderness about 200 miles south of Tehran is a place called “Half of the World.” Ishfahan, twice the capital of Persia, was the...

Shiraz, Iran is a poet's (Hafiz's) oasis, where the art of Islam has prominence

I arrived at the ruins of Persepolis, near Shiraz, with great anticipation. The skies were clear and the sun burned hot even in...

The historical vibrations of Persia really begin to hit home in the central desert towns of Iran, especially in the large city of Yazd —...

One of the oldest towns in the world displays some of the finest Persian architecture in central Asia

Modern Iran is certainly a paragon of Islam but the country’s culture also has deep roots in the ancient mostly unrecorded Zoroastrian...

Traveling through Iran-Persia from Tehran to Kashan

Whose head is that? The Lion and Sun (شیر و خورشید‎‎, Shir o Khorshid) emblem (holding a shamshir, scimitar) remained the official...

If your Persian rug wasn't made in Iran, then it isn't a Persian carpet. There is mystery woven into each fabric composition that is...

Iran/Persia is the torn heart of Central Asia (Asia Minor). Secular China is the body, Byzantine Russia the head, the Hindu Indian...

Cosmopolitan Smog - view from Tochal Ski Mountain Tehran, the largest city and capital of the Islamic Republic of Iran, fans out below...

This account of Iran's people, land, arts, and history begins simply with a collection of faces -- of citizens going about their daily...

Buckled in a business class seat on a Lufthansa airliner scheduled to depart from Frankfurt, Germany, to Washington D.C. , on September...

I am travelling to Iran to explore some of the antiquities and historical highlights of the great Persian Empire with a small tour group acc