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It is the afternoon of New Year’s Eve and I’m with my mother in the kitchen of our home in Omsk, south-west Siberia. Pots of boiling water steam the windows, obscuring the snowdrifts outside. On the table are mounds of potatoes, gherkins, carrots, eggs and chicken breast waiting to be diced. It’s a marathon I find meditative but my mother …

Iran International is a British-based Persian television station funded by Saudi investors.It is aimed at Iranian viewers and broadcasts free-to-air by satellite.

Dr. Sabeti is a computational geneticist with expertise developing algorithms to detect genetic signatures of adaption in humans and the microbial organisms that infect humans.

Majid Faridfar is an actor, known for The Round Mill (1967), Aftab mahtab (1970) and The Red Alert (1970).

In this program, Googoosh and her team of experts, Hooman Khalatbari and Babak Saeedi, help unknown Iranian performers maximize their talent in vocal music and singing, like the American program, American Idol. Hosted by Raha Etemadi, it was also launched in the British TV channel, Unique TV.

Susan Roshan (born 23 September 1967) is a singer, who currently lives in Houston, Texas, United States. After the Iranian Revolution, she moved to the United States with her parents and brother at the age of twelve.

Bangladesh opened its first Islamic school for transgender Muslims on Friday with clerics calling it a first step towards integrating the discriminated minority into society.

In 1930 the first Iranian silent film was made by Professor Ovanes Ohanian called Abi and Rabi. In 1933 he made his second film titled Haji Agha. Later that year, Abdolhossein Sepanta made the first Iranian sound film, entitled Lor Girl, which was released in 1933 in two Tehran cinemas, Mayak and Sepah.

Rebekah Jones, 38, of Haroldgate, has been running My Little Persian Kitchen alongside successful supper clubs for years and decided to turn her passion into a cookbook people could follow.

Niaz slimi is an cinema actress. She played in Ejareh-Nesheenha which is a 1987 Persian comedy film directed by Dariush Mehrjui. It has been widely acclaimed as the best Iranian comedy film of the 1980s.