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Mexican-American singer, musician and accordionist Irany has released “Ahora Sí Quieres Querer,” a mariachi single out Sept. 4, 2026 on digital platforms.

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C. A. Boozarjomehri’s Thirteen Moons: The Werewolf Almanac turns a paranormal coming-of-age story into a meditation on grief, found family and self-acceptance.

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AMMWEC wrapped its second annual National Coalition Against Antisemitism and Hate Conference in Washington with the launch of a new book of Muslim witness accounts from trips to Israel after the Oct. 7 attacks.

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Dr. Carole Lieberman will join tonight’s National September 11 Memorial & Museum 25th Anniversary Benefit Dinner in Manhattan and debut her sixth annual mobile billboard campaign on Friday.

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Iran has reportedly banned Jewell Farshad’s song “Salope of Liberté” as the track surges on TikTok and Instagram during funeral ceremonies for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

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A Bakersfield high school student has launched Yādgār, a free online archive documenting the destruction, looting and suppression of Iranian and Middle Eastern cultural heritage.

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Social media speculation has linked Iranian soccer star Ramin Rezaeian with Hollywood actress and model Jewell Farshad after Rezaeian’s emotional World Cup moment went viral.

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NCRI-US held a press conference and exhibition at Los Angeles City Hall ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup to highlight what it described as political control of sports in Iran and the treatment of athletes who challenge it. Former athletes,…

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Athletes and the National Council of Resistance of Iran U.S. Office will hold a June 10 press conference and photo exhibition in Los Angeles ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The event will urge FIFA to suspend and expel Iran’s football…

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India brought delegates from BRICS and partner countries to Varanasi for the second BRICS Culture Working Group meeting on June 4-5, 2026, using the ancient city to showcase Uttar Pradesh’s heritage, spiritual sites and tourism potential.

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Aras Jaff’s new book, A Journey Towards Light, uses memoir and fiction to follow a Kurdish schoolboy through the Iran-Iraq War, the Anfal campaign, the 1991 uprising and displacement in Iraqi Kurdistan.

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The Hajji Baba Club selected Cosima Stewart and Adela Foo as its 2026–2027 Research Fellows to support original scholarship on carpets and textiles.

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Farrah Mechael closes her debut contemporary opera album Remembrance with an original movement in Aramaic, blending Iraqi Maqam vocal traditions and modern piano techniques.

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Influential Women profiled Prudence Bushnell, a retired U.S. ambassador and career Foreign Service officer whose career included senior posts in Africa and a crisis-tested tenure in Kenya.

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Two Ottawa-raised artists, pianist-composer Mary Dawood Catlin and conductor-composer Nadeem Majdalany, have teamed up on AZADI Songs of Freedom, a new classical album built around human rights and artistic resistance.

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Dr. Azita Sayan is spotlighting how inherited and learned behavior can shape partner choice, conflict, self-worth and personal change.

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AZADI Songs of Freedom, released worldwide Aug. 27, 2026, brings together GRAMMY-winning and GRAMMY-nominated musicians from multiple countries in a statement against repression and censorship.

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Historian and journalist Marc Schulman will publish Between Hope & Fear on Sept. 1, 2026, a book that examines how Israel moved from the optimism of the Oslo era to the Hamas attack of Oct. 7, 2023. The book links three decades of war, diplomacy,…

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The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity has announced speakers for its 10th annual Washington-area conference on Sept. 5 in Herndon, Virginia, with Ron Paul, Jim Webb, Dennis Kucinich and others slated to appear.

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Iranian-American pop artist Darvishi released “Jelo,” a dance-pop single about pushing past self-doubt and moving forward, on June 26. The rollout includes a Koja Cafe collaboration in Westwood and a music video set for July 1. Why it matters: -…