With more than 10,000 religious shrines dotting Iran to mark where descendants of Shi'ite Islam's most revered imams are said to have been buried, many of them go unnoticed. But one of these so-called ...

MARTIN GROVE interviews Marjane Satrapi, pictured, whose animated "Persepolis" is France's official entry for a foreign language Academy Award and might vie with "Ratatouille" for best animated ...

You can tell when it’s that day. Tehran, capital of Iran, is not it’s usual. The place is buzzing, and the streets are packed; all sorts of vehicles fill up the roads and men in red or blue football ...

TEHRAN - Archaeologists have discovered evidence of an early Elamite jar burial and traces of kiln waste at Tol-e Roubahi ...

Persepolis remains one of the great graphic novels of all time and one of the best movie adaptations of a comic book. Created by Iranian expat French cartoonist, now movie director Marjane Satrapi, it ...

Yet Iran’s theocratic rulers have begun not only tolerating but organising such events, part of a charm offensive to promote cultural heritage and try to win over a population disillusioned by ...

The Franklin Regional School District’s curriculum committee called a special meeting earlier this week, at which its members voted to “unpause” the teaching of Marjane Satrapi’s 2004 graphic novel ...

Animated movies have never seen a heroine quite like Marjane in "Persepolis." Sure, she's spunky and resourceful, cute as a button at age 9, and possessing grace and beauty as an adult. But she's also ...

“Persepolis,” Marjane Satrapi’s award-winning autobiographical graphic novel, opens with a class photo of a row of young girls wearing identical black headscarves. “This is me when I was 10 years old, ...