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A Persian community developed in Westwood, Los Angeles after the Islamic Revolution of 1979 prompted thousands of Iranians to flee to the United States. It is a shopping, eating and gathering place for the large number (estimates range from 500,000-600,000) of Iranian-Americans and their descendants residing in the Los Angeles metropolitan area ...
Within the University of California system, programs in Iran Studies are taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, Irvine, and San Francisco State University. The International Society for Iranian Studies (previously known as the Society for Iranian Studies) was founded by a group of Iranian graduate ...
Pejman Hadadi, internationally acclaimed tonbak player and Persian classical musician. Member of Axiom of Choice and the Dastan Ensemble; Hayedeh, singer of Persian classical, folk, and pop music. Considered one of the most popular singers of 20th century Iran. Immigrated to the U.S. in 1982; Mohammad Heydari, prominent santur player and songwriter
The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles. University of Minnesota Press, 1993. ISBN 0816620873, 9780816620876. Soomekh, Sabah. From the Shahs to Los Angeles: Three Generations of Iranian Jewish Women between Religion and Culture. SUNY Press, November 1, 2012. ISBN 1438443838, 9781438443836.
Persian is a member of the Western Iranian group of the Iranian languages, which make up a branch of the Indo-European languages in their Indo-Iranian subdivision.The Western Iranian languages themselves are divided into two subgroups: Southwestern Iranian languages, of which Persian is the most widely spoken, and Northwestern Iranian languages, of which Kurdish and Balochi are the most widely ...
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Ehsan Yarshater (2011) Ehsan Yarshater (Persian: احسان يارشاطر; April 3, 1920 – September 1, 2018) [2] was an Iranian historian and linguist who specialized in Iranology.
The first academy for the Persian language was founded on May 20, 1935, under the name Academy of Iran.It was established by the initiative of Reza Shah, and mainly by Hekmat e Shirazi and Mohammad Ali Foroughi, all names in the nationalist movement of the time.