Thou art unworthy to be called by the name of a man.* Teachers usually spurred students on to memorize it in class or as homework, something that seemed boring and nonsensical! Teachers and parents ...

The event honored the legacy of Abu’l-Qasem Ferdowsi Tusi (c. 935– c. 1020-26 CE), the celebrated Persian poet and author of the Shahnameh (“Book of Kings”), the Persian national epic, which, ...

Persian and other Islamic literature celebrated male homoerotic love as a form of divine longing – until Western moral codes ...

In the category of translation from Persian into Arabic, “The Desert” (“Al-Sahra”) by Hasan al-Sarraf received first prize. The book features articles by Iranian scholar Ali Shariati, the organizers ...

To write a literary history of Persia is to chronicle the thought and development of the land of Iran, from the time of the prophet Zoroaster and the laws of the Medes and Persians down to the latest ...

There is something truly magnificent about poetry and literature in any language. One could say poetry is language in its most exalted form, where words’ every conceivable and unfathomable ...

It took Iranian Jews now living in the United States nearly three decades in exile from the land they called home for roughly 2,700 years to appreciate their rich history and culture preserved in ...

With Persian lending to several regional languages, primary among them Urdu, scholars at a moot on it stressed the need for promoting the language for collective success. Terming the Persian language ...

LAHORE: The Persian language is not only a shared heritage of the people of Iran, Afghanistan, and Central Asian states as well as the Indian Subcontinent, but it can also bring millions of people in ...

Beyzaie, who has died aged 87, wove myth, folklore and classical Persian literature into stories that defend against a regime which sought to obliterate them ...