Topic: Persia

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time: movie review

Jake Gyllenhaal wears his heroism lightly as the prince in the video-game inspired ‘Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.'

Two to tango: Why Iran turns dance partners into enemies

Since the 1979 Islamic revolution, Iran has rebuffed a string of potential allies from Canada to Britain and now Russia. Why? An outside enemy helps revolutionary regimes consolidate power.

Iran: A refuge for World War II's refugees

Exiled Poles were sent to Persia, as one woman discovers in tracing her grandmother's journey to America.

Is US strategy in Afghanistan working?

The debate over sending more US troops frames a larger clash over counterinsurgency strategy as the new template for war.

Opinion: Iran's nuclear crisis: Obama could play the human rights card

One issue that should be put on the table is what Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad put on display this week in New York: Iran's religious minorities.

The curious incident of Conan Doyle's 150th

Swiss village where Sherlock Holmes's archenemy meets his end readies for flood of fans May 22.

Egyptians win the right to drop religion from ID cards

Rights activists say the decision on a case brought by Bahais is an historic first step towards a more inclusive definition of Egyptian identity.

Figures in Silk

Two sisters discover passion during the War of the Roses.

Israeli town copes with return of near daily rockets

In Sderot, Purim holiday fun masks stresses of rocket attacks from Gaza militants.

Iran enters space race with own satellite and rocket

Western nations worry that a Safir rocket could deliver nuclear weapons.

Live, from your dining room, it’s your own TV channel

Column: Mogulus.com does for TV what home-publishing software did for newsletters.

Barnes & Noble interview with Khaled Hosseini

A palette of garden grasses

Ornamental grasses add movement to otherwise ordinary landscaping.

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Is the Sunni-Shiite rift mostly politics and media hype?

A panel discussion Tuesday in Doha, Qatar, was dominated by the perception that the Western media hypes up tensions by focusing too much on the minority of radicals.

All about windmills

For kids: Windmills have been around for centuries, and the modern versions still work hard today.

Letters to the Editor

Readers write about science in the courtroom, the validity of Hamas, Kenya's strife, Sufi poet Rumi, and global-warming prevention.