Strangers chatting in the fast-moving line outside Asal Bakery & Kabob are all jonesing for a taste of the same thing: warm sangak, a floppy chewy yard-long sesame-encrusted flatbread pulled from the ...

Before Asal Sweets in Sydney there was Amir in Tehran. The 20-year-old bakery was known all over the city and many restaurants and grocers stocked its biscuits, cream puffs and sponge cakes. The owner ...

Iranian musicians Asal Malekzadeh and Ali Seriri were recently in Bengaluru to perform at Avataran ‘22, the annual concert presented by October Octaves. Asal is a percussionist who specialises on the ...