Born Faegheh Atashin, she’s been known as Googoosh since birth. In her new memoir, “Googoosh: A Sinful Voice,” the singer ...

Iranian pop icon Googoosh has revealed that her new music will release only after the current Islamic Republic regime in Tehran falls.

Iran's most-famous singer has written an account of her life as she embarks on a farewell tour. “Googoosh: A Sinful Voice” recounts a life shaped by both the political forces that have ...

“The stage is my first homeland,” 75-year-old Iranian singer Googoosh tells Newsweek from her Los Angeles home, noting that her second is Iran. A child performer who became one of the defining voices ...

If you’re looking for a temperature check on the state of the planet’s ecological decline, this is it. For decades, Tehran has faced an oncoming water shortage, brought on by environmental changes, ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s foreign ministry called a resolution by the U.N. atomic watchdog’s board of governors “anti-Iranian” and threatened unspecified retaliatory actions, state media reported on ...

In the 1980s and '90s, following the Iranian Revolution, Los Angeles became the epicenter of Iranian pop music. A new album, Tehrangeles Vice, collects hits from some of the city's notable bands. The ...

The new album "Tehrangeles Vice" is a daring collection of Iranian disco and synthpop recorded in Los Angeles in the 1980s and 1990s. The term Tehrangeles refers to the Iranian American diaspora in ...

Shadi Rouhshahbaz was a Women Peacemaker Fellow at the Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, the University of San Diego (2023-2024). She received funding from this fellowship to conduct research on ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Discotchari’s new compilation “Tehrangeles Vice” resurrects forgotten 1980s Persian pop songs made in L.A. by ...

That imagination brings with it a considerable amount of sadness, because I know that countless Iranians with legacies just like my father’s, have been killed by the clerical regime. In the summer of ...