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 ...

We have regularly been reviewing Dr. Shadab Ahmed’s diverse and contrasting books. Dr. Shadab Ahmed is an Oral & ...

Nowhere in the world is poetry more highly valued than in Iran, so it is not surprising that the singing of poetry is central to Persian musical culture. Furthermore, the values of music and dance are ...

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 ...

formidable improviser with a remarkable alto, Parissa appears here with the Dastan Ensemble: Hamid Motebassem (tar lute), Hossein Behroozinia (barbat lute), Saeed Farajpouri (kamanche fiddle), and ...

Sher-e sepid (literally, white verse), removed all limitations from Persian poetry. It made the role of systematic rhyming obsolete and relied on redefining poetic modes and creating new ...

Iranian jazz singer Rana Farhan sets the Persian verses of mystical poets like Rumi, Hafez and Omar Khayyám to the rhythms of cool American blues, jazz and soul.

CAN you please pass on to Charles Perry my congratulations for a terrific article on Sufi/Persian cooking ("Poetry in Every Plate," March 22).

Persian poetry draws its main spirit from Hebrew and early Christian sources, though through the channel of Muhammedanism ; and we may say that it rises above or falls below the classical ...

In “The World of Persian Literary Humanism,” Hamid Dabashi writes that “the physical beauty” of Hafez’s poetry is “above and beyond anything achieved before or after in Persian lyrics.” ...

Persian Poetry.. To Baron von Hammer Purgstall, who died in Vienna during the last year, we owe our best knowledge of the Persians. He has translated into German, besides the “ Divan ” of ...

PERSIAN AND OTTOMAN POETRY. Share full article. Jan. 14, 1883. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from January 14, 1883, Page 4 Buy Reprints.