In her Broadway debut, Tala Ashe embodied the struggle of a woman caught between two cultures. The actress portrayed Elham in the new play English by Sanaz Toossi. A bright medical student in Iran, ...

At 2 years old, Lanah Boissy has perfected the art of linguistic one-upmanship. Perched in a highchair at dinnertime in Sterling, she will say something in Farsi, wait for a look of bafflement from ...

Language learning has played a big role in Afsaneh’s life. As an Iranian, she grew up speaking Farsi. As an adult, she became an English teacher, and on arrival in Belgrade as a refugee in 2018 she ...

I can empathize. As someone who takes five classes a week in three different foreign languages – it has been my way of getting through the pandemic – the subject of Sanaz Toossi’s new play not only ...