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

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 Hafiz ...

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 ...

Parvin Etesami was a prominent figure in Iranian literature and poetry who, based on her adherence to traditional literature, ...

Perhaps a comparison to religion is more apt: Poetry is to Iranians what religion is to the religious. But this analogy is a bit off — not just because many Iranians are religious — but also because ...

Poetry is very important in Iranian culture. The American side of the group doesn’t imitate Persian music — they listen to us and then create their own parts.

Any conversation with another person might lead to a recitation of a poem from the 13th or 14th century, Omoumi said. Persian musicians have long been an honored part of the Muslim world.

The choice of lines from Persian poetry of all things could give us a cue as to how Biden wishes to frame the U.S. relationship with Iran amidst these ongoing dynamics, whether with cautious hope ...

The works of 14th century Persian poet Hafez are iconic in Iran. Poet and scholar Dick Davis has spent years bringing the medieval writer’s words to the West. Jeffrey Brown talks to Davis about ...

Her Baha’i beliefs in peace, altruism and humanity were, undoubtedly, instrumental to Mahvash Sabet’s perseverance in prison. But she also relied on something else: poetry.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella likes to test AI using a poetry prompt. Nadella will ask the AI to translate the work of Persian poet Rumi. He said GPT-4's answer "preserved the sovereignty of poetry ...

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 ...