“The Farsi language is a poetic language,” says Masud Valipour, owner of Ketabsara Persian Calligraphy and Books in Westwood’s Persian Square. He gestures along the store’s walls where turquoise, jade ...

Freshly returned from a week of intellectual sparring at the 57th annual Conference on World Affairs, the annual gabfest in Boulder, Colo. (the late jazz critic Leonard Feather called it “the leisure ...

Malik Muhammad Danish is a young (serving) Pakistani diplomat with a passion for languages and literature —- ‘a polyglot, at home in Urdu, Punjabi, English, Persian, Chinese, and Spanish’. He is an ...

Iran is a deeply misunderstood country. Frequently, we in the United States are bombarded with news about its repressive and extremist government — but rarely do we actually engage with the country’s ...

Before teaching Persian at the University, Michelle Quay, visiting lecturer in language studies, spent several years working on a Persian poetry group at the University of Cambridge alongside Annabel ...

Rumi was born to native Persian-speaking parents on the Eastern shores of the then Persian Empire on September 30, 1207, in the city of Balkh which is now part of Afghanistan, and finally settled in ...

KARACHI On Tuesday evening Khana-i-Farhang (the Cultural Centre of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Karachi) organised a seminar at the Pakistan National Museum to commemorate two great poets from Asia ...

TEHRAN- On February 28, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, was martyred in a coordinated attack by Israel and the United States that struck his office in central ...

The event was organized by the TV BRICS International Media Network, in collaboration with Iran’s cultural attaché’s office in Russia, and the All-Russian State Library for Foreign Literature named ...