Maryam Bayat stood in front of a sculpture of a cypress tree, constructed from an old Persian rug. "We have this tree in all different parts of Iran — in the north, in Shiraz, everywhere. And it's ...

For many in metro Atlanta's Persian community, this new year feels a bit different from those of the past.

Maryam Mirzakhani grew up in Tehran dreaming of becoming a writer, not a mathematician. Yet she went on to win the Fields Medal in 2014, becoming the first woman to receive the world's highest ...