What the queen means to Jewish tradition and to resisting tyranny and persecution—in the seventeenth century and today.

Muzaffar Ali gives his most precise expression for what Umrao Jaan means to him: “My Umrao is sacred. She is for aashiques, lovers. Those who emulate it will be rejected. It is sacred, and it is mine, ...

What was especially interesting about this particular media blitz was the role contemporary architecture played in communicating the cultural richness of Iran, a country Americans have been told to ...