Tehran

Seven year old Teija's father is stuck in Iran due to the travel ban. She holds a sign during a protest  at Los Angeles International Airport.

Two brothers, one in Iran and another in California, say the US travel ban has thrown their family for a loop

Conflict

Trump reminds these Iranians of their former leader, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Iranian women watch Iran's national soccer team conduct a training session ahead of the 2006 World Cup.

Iran’s female sports fans may finally get bleacher seats instead of jail time

Sports
Golshid Mola wants to introduce the works of underground Iranian designers to the world.

An Iranian American entrepreneur is keeping a close eye on nuclear talks

Arts
A woman makes a purchase at a store in Tehran.

Iranian entrepreneurs are ‘dreaming of the doors opening’ to the West

Global Politics
Amar Bakshi (second from right), the lead artist on the Portal Between Tehran and NYC; and Michelle Moghtader (second from left), the project's development director. Bakshi says his mother and uncle, also seen here, helped out a lot too.

This New York art installation opens up a new gateway to Tehran

Arts
The 1979 Revolution game

A video game designer wants to introduce a different side of his native Iran to the world

Culture

Navid Khonsari was 10 when the Islamic Revolution swept through his home country of Iran. His family had to leave the country and start a new life in Canada. He’s now making a video game that captures those tumultuous days.

A large number of Armenian refugees live in the Los Angeles area. Every year the Armenian Christ Church hosts a Thanksgiving feast featuring traditional American and Armenian dishes.

For these Iranian Armenian refugees, Thanksgiving brings back memories of arriving in the US

Belief

Most Americans celebrate Thanksgiving, but what’s special about the holiday differs for everyone. There’s family, sure. And food. And football. Yet for an Iranian-Armenian family and their community, it’s a chance to celebrate religious freedom, and their lives in the US.

Gael García Bernal plays Iranian reporter Maziar Bahari in "Rosewater."

The journalist profiled in Jon Stewart’s ‘Rosewater’ finds dark humor In Iran’s prisons

Media

In a prison memoir, misery and pain are usually staples. But in “Rosewater,” the story of Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari’s time in Tehran’s Evin Prison, dark humor and the absurd are given equal time.

ISIS hand gesture

ISIS has a new hand sign — and it means far more than ‘We’re #1’

Global Scan

The Islamic militants known as ISIS have shown savvy in social media and in picking their symbols. We explore the deeper meaning behind their index finger salute — and their black-and-white flag. And an author shows a side of Iran’s capital that you might not have expected, from sex to drugs to skinny jeans. And are you tired of being cramped in economy class? You’re not alone. All that in today’s Global Scan.

Women gaze at jewelery displayed at an international fair in Tehran.

Crystal meth, skinny jeans and underground bloggers — it’s the Iran you never see

Books

Iranian-British author Ramita Navai says Iran’s capital Tehran is full of people who are leading double lives. On the outside, they conform. On the inside, they are true to themselves. She tells their stories in her novel, City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death and the search for Truth in Tehran.