Iran is a country often portrayed through the lens of conflict and controversy, but there’s so much more beneath the surface.

Persepolis on Manhattan’s Upper East Side offers palatial servings of Persian fare that would satisfy even the most finicky emperor. ... a Tehran-native who attributes this sophistication to the 5,000 ...

'Persepolis,' Marjane Satrapi’s award-winning autobiographical graphic novel, opens with a class photo of a row of young girls wearing identical black headscarves.

“Persepolis,” which opens today, traces Satrapi’s coming-of-age under the shadow of the Islamic Revolution. She used no modern-day computer graphics to bring her story to the silver screen.