The people of Azerbaijan pay tribute to People's Artist Bahram Mansurov, an outstanding tar player, mugham master, AzerNEWS reports. Born on February 12, 1911, in the heart of Baku's historic ...

Bahram Salih, the new head of the UN's refugee agency says that he knows the pain of being ripped from all one knows. The former Iraqi president has just taken over the UNHCR and headed to Kakuma ...

Bahram Beyzaie, a filmmaker, playwright and scholar who was hailed as a giant of Iranian culture for leading the nation's cinematic New Wave starting in the late 1960s, melding the history and ...

Despite a ceaseless battle against government censors, he was celebrated as one of his country’s greatest auteurs, winning praise from luminaries like Martin Scorsese. By Alex Williams Bahram Beyzaie, ...

On Saturday, Jan. 3, atop the Santa Cruz Mountains overlooking Stanford, the heavens mourned. Rain and wind bent the trees like the wind-swept cypress of Persian poetry, that ancient symbol of ...

The death of a towering Iranian filmmaker is the loss of an artist whose work carried his homeland's myths, language and memory despite years of exile and censorship Iranian filmmaker Bahram Beizai ...

Beyzaie, who has died aged 87, wove myth, folklore and classical Persian literature into stories that defend against a regime which sought to obliterate them One of the last messages I sent to the ...

Iranian filmmaker Bahram Beyzaie, best known for his 1989 feature Bashu: The Little Stranger, which was restored at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, has died. He was 87. Beyzaie died on his birthday, ...

Asghar Farhadi remembered the filmmaker and playwright, who died due to complications from cancer, as his "great teacher." By Hilary Lewis Deputy Editor, East Coast Prominent Iranian film and theater ...

Mojdeh Shamsaie, his wife, confirmed the news of the artist’s passing on social media and stated that Bahram Beyzaie died at his private residence in California, the U.S. Beyzaie’s death coincides ...