The Iron Sheik was played by Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri, a Persian American performer who pretended to be an Arab, an evil one. He wore an Arab headdress into the ring, antagonized fans and ...

They are also full of “how to live, what to do” advice for his audience. Khosrow and Shirin, which is the best known and most admired of Nezami’s romances, is based on historical events from the ...

These five poems include the didactic work Makhzan ol-Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries); the three traditional love stories of Khosrow and Shirin, Leili and Majnun, and Haft Paykar; and the ...

Business executive and philanthropist Khosrow Semnani — who has owned Trolley Square since 2013, when he bought the mall and surrounding lots out of bankruptcy — did not respond to requests ...

In the work’s first modern-verse English translation, Davis (Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz) brings the story of Khosrow, an Iranian prince, and Shirin, an Armenian princess, to life through ...

To that list one should add the protagonists of two of medieval Persia’s greatest romantic epics, “Layla and Majnun” and “Khosrow and Shirin,” both by the poet Nezami Ganjavi (1141-1209).

George Balanchine glorified women. In the maestro’s own words: “The principle of classical ballet is woman.” He was deeply affected by female beauty, choosing his dancers accordingly—he preferred the ...

When the celebrated Iranian artist Khosrow Hassanzadeh died of methanol poisoning this month, everyone but his country's most ardent theocrats recognized that prohibition was the problem.

On American TV in the 1980s, the only Iranian who was a bigger star than Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri was Ayatollah Khomeini. They appeared on different channels: Khomeini, the cleric turned ...