My conversation with Faegheh Atashin begins with her asking why, after half a century of influence, I care to tell her story. Her humility takes me by surprise. As Googoosh, Atashin, whose surname ...

"My whole life, my career — it was for the Iranian people. I was singing for them. Now, I can't sing. I don't want to sing." — Googoosh It's a sunny December afternoon in Los Angeles and Googoosh — ...

Googoosh is an Iranian singer and actress of Iranian and Azerbaijani origin known for her contributions to Iranian pop music. Her given name is Faegheh Atashin, but she is better known by her stage ...

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Googoosh was one of Iran’s most famous women, a child star who grew up to become a bona fide pop culture phenomenon. She released hit albums, starred in acclaimed films ...

In a Zoom interview with Newsweek from her Los Angeles home, Iranian pop icon Googoosh recounts her celebrated career in pre-revolution Iran, the state-imposed silence that followed the 1979 ...

The first time Googoosh was asked to write a memoir, the request came from Iran’s Islamic Republic interrogators. Their goal was for the pop superstar to relay a “cautionary tale.” This, of course, ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order, banning refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries, has reportedly blocked Iranian singer, actress, and cultural icon Googoosh from entering the ...