Step outside the elite circle, however, and this picture changes dramatically. If by “Tajik” one has in mind the language of the hearth and bazaar, then it turns out there are many varieties of ...

The invented language was thought up by a university professor who is an expert in languages. “I wanted it to sound obviously Eastern, to be grammatically correct and consistent, that was ...

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 ...

A television personality on a popular Persian-language network who acted as an immigration consultant was sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison on Thursday for bribing U.S.

TEHRAN—Uzbekistan’s Persian language professors, while paying tribute to the great Iranian poet Hakim Abolqasem Ferdowsi, ...

Many Persian speakers in Afghanistan prefer and use the name Farsi, the official language in Iran. They say the term Dari has been forced on them by the dominant Pashtun ethnic group as an attempt to ...

The English word for 'Farsi' is 'Persian'. Just as in English they refer to the German language as German, not Deutsch, they should also say Persian, not Farsi.

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, ...

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Radio Farda is a Persian-language radio service that will provide Iranians with additional news, information, public affairs and entertainment. The service is now on the air and is modeled on Radio ...

A television personality on a popular Persian-language network who acted as an immigration consultant was sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison on Thursday for bribing U.S ...