The Tehran Municipality has constructed locked barriers between the women's and men's subway cars in Tehran as gender apartheid deepens in Iran. ...Read more

Zohra Soltanabadi is a riding instructor and horse breeder and the wife of Kayhan Kalhor. She was born in Kermanshah in 1977 and is currently 46 years old. She is originally Kurds and her husband Kayhan Kalhor is the 2019 Music Man of the Year....Read more

Spelling words correctly is one of the biggest challenges for anyone learning a language....Read more

Ahmad Jannati is an Iranian conservative politician. He was born in Ladan, Isfahan. Jannati is known for his anti-LGBT rhetoric and opposition to secularism. He is also a founding member of the Haghani, school of thought....Read more

Horses are such fascinating creatures. Even if you never learned to ride one, you could spend your whole life studying them and still have plenty to explore. ...Read more

More storms like this are on the horizon as climate change causes hurricanes to intensify.  The proportion of hurricanes that become category four and five is projected....Read more

ll you’ve got in there are a few old carrots and a questionable red delicious apple.After looking through drawers and not seeing anything that piques your interest....Read more

Benazir Bhutto was a Pakistani politician and stateswoman who served as the 11th and 13th prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 to 1996. She was the first woman elected to head a democratic government in a Muslim-majority country....Read more

Cyrus the Great, also known as Cyrus II or Cyrus the Elder, was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire, the first Persian Empire. He ruled from 559 BC to 530 BC and his reign is considered one of the most important in ancient history....Read more

Assal Rad received her PhD in Middle Eastern history from the University of California, Irvine, and currently works on US-Iran policy. She has written for Newsweek, the Independent, Foreign Policy, and more, and appeared on BBC World, BBC Persian, Al Jazeera, and NPR....Read more

Lebanese Civil War, (1975-90) Civil conflict resulting from tensions among Lebanon’s Christian and Muslim populations....Read more

Every aircraft is different... every airline is different. It all depends on what the airline has sent up with their maintenance plan....Read more

The report said authorities were investigating and gave no speculation on a motive, though the wife had complained about a knife threat on social media in recent weeks....Read more

Leprosy is a chronic, progressive bacterial infection caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae....Read more

This centuries-old tradition has survived many iterations of the Turkish state and celebrates the 'union with God' of Sufi mystic Jalaladdin Rumi....Read more