The following is a partner post from EurasiaNet.org written by James Pickett. Republished with permission. Is Tajik a dialect of Persian? Or a language in its own right? What differentiates it from ...

Many assumed Iran is an Arab country due to geography and religion, but the truth is rooted in a 2,500-year-old Persian ...

Is Tajik a dialect of Persian? Or a language in its own right? What differentiates it from varieties prevalent in Afghanistan and Iran? There is no easy answer to these questions because the very ...

Representations of Afghan cultural identity in the American consciousness are few and far between. It would be hard to dispute that the most famous of these representations is authored by Khaled ...

What to call the Persian language in Afghanistan? It's a question Afghans have grappled with and sparred over for decades. The long-simmering dispute was reignited after the BBC changed the name of ...

Introduction to Persian language and culture. By the end of the semester, students will have an overview of Persian grammar and will able to read and converse in Persian at a basic level. Class ...

The name Iran comes from the Indo-Iranian roots of the people who built early Persian civilisation.