A project has commenced to remove hazardous dry trees from the UNESCO-listed Persepolis, amid visitor safety concerns and the risk of fire, a local official said.

The surveillance cameras were installed due to multiple reasons including traffic speed monitoring, better protection of the World Heritage site, and improve the quality of welfare and security of ...

"It's all me me me," she says. "Or me me and myself. Then more me. It's just disgusting. (Laughs.) Every once in a while, I'll look at myself in the mirror and just say, 'Shut up. Stop talking about ...

Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis" won international acclaim as an autobiographical tale, told first in the form of a graphic novel, later turned into a film, of a young girl coming of age amid the 1979 ...

MARTIN GROVE interviews Marjane Satrapi, pictured, whose animated "Persepolis" is France's official entry for a foreign language Academy Award and might vie with "Ratatouille" for best animated ...

Conservationists at Persepolis, Iran’s most iconic ancient site, are waging a delicate battle against an unlikely adversary: tiny but persistent lichens eroding the millennia-old monuments. The fight, ...

Back in early December I was given the opportunity to meet Persepolis' Iranian writer and director Marjane Satrapi and quickly jumped at the opportunity. Not only had a heard great things about the ...

In the recent controversy surrounding “Persepolis,” Marjane Satrapi’s stellar graphic memoir about growing up during the Iranian Revolution, much of the focus has been devoted to trying to determine ...

Persepolis: Animation. Featuring the voices of Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve and Danielle Darrieux. Directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud. In French with English subtitles. (PG-13.

In 1971, at the age of eleven, I was in Iran with my late father, Ted Hughes, who was writing a play called Orghast, directed by Peter Brook, for the Shiraz-Persepolis Festival of Arts, to coincide ...