This ancient ingredient enhances everything from muffins and pastries to noodles, curries, and salad dressing.

If you’ve ever wondered how to make homemade naan bread that rivals the soft, chewy texture of those served at Indian ...

Piles of bread -- some round, some stretched into canoe-like shapes, some sprinkled with sesame seeds or sugar -- overlap ...

Mohammad Rasoulof’s powerful drama about the authoritarian Iranian government breaks a fourth wall, with consequences. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

A staple in many Middle Eastern and South Asian cuisines, naan is a traditional Indian flatbread best paired with a hot bowl of curry and cooked in an authentic clay oven called tandoor. For this ...

“The Seed of the Sacred Fig” is an anguished cry from the heart of Mohammad Rasoulof, the Iranian filmmaker who just fled his home country for Europe after an eight-year prison sentence from ...

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the awards season’s most talked-about films continues with the Cannes Film Festival Special Jury Prize winner The Seed of ...

Exiled Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof’s “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” is a powerful indictment of totalitarianism and the Iran regime. The film, which won both a Special Jury Prize and ...

The four central characters in “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” a gripping, superbly acted drama from the Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, are introduced with an almost ceremonial deliberation.