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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 ...
Jaam-e-Jam (also spelled as Jam-e Jam; Persian: جام جم) was a Persian-language television channel based in Los Angeles featuring content from Iranian immigrants, active from the early 1980s until 2017. [1]
International Studies Learning Center (ISLC) is a "span school", meaning a combined junior and senior high school covering grades 6–12, in the Los Angeles Unified School District. A WASC accredited school, [ 2 ] ISLC is part of the Asia Society International Studies Schools Network . [ 3 ]
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 ...
Seal with a Persian man dancing, Achaemenid period, dated c. 400 BC.Currently housed in the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles Dancers and musicians on a Sasanian bowl. The earliest researched dance from historic Iran is a dance worshiping Mithra (as in the Cult of Mithras) in which a bull was sacrificed. [5]
The word-final / æ / in Classical Persian became [e] in modern Tehrani Persian, both colloquial and standard dialects (often romanized as "eh", meaning [e] is also an allophone of / æ / in word-final position in modern Tehrani Persian) except for نه [næ] ('no'), but is preserved in the Dari dialects. Standard Persian /ou̯/ ↔ Tehrani [oː].
PUC Schools is a charter school operator in Greater Los Angeles. It has its headquarters in Burbank . [ 1 ] The charter school systems operates schools in northeast Los Angeles and the northeast San Fernando Valley .
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.