As Iran welcomes the first day of spring, two significant occasions converge on March 21st: Nowruz, the Persian New Year, and ...

Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (1207–1273) was a poet, scholar, and dervish dedicated to Sufi mysticism. His wisdom, originally in Persian ...

By Mehleen Syed The story of women in Sufism is like a hidden tapestry—its threads often overlooked, yet essential to the ...

Holi symbolizes the celebration of colors, unity, and the triumph of good over evil. In Braj, the festival is uniquely ...

TEHRAN-Hakim Nizami is a poet who has an enduring status and lasting legacy throughout the Persian-speaking lands. With the ...

The second album by a young master of the tanbur reminds Kamyar Salavati of a special trip to the mountains of Kermanshah in Iran ...

Though the festival has been commercialized with all sorts of marathon events like the Color Run, it’s actually rooted in ...

It’s rooted in Hindu myths and has been celebrated across parts of India, where it originated, for centuries; poems documenting the festival date back to the 4th century CE. Holi celebrations in ...

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

The ancient Sindh region in particular – where the restless River Indus runs into the Arabian Sea – is a bastion of Islamic mysticism ... kinds of limericks and poems. In the absence of ...