From Tehran's prisons to Haifa's shelters, Payam Feili, who fled his native country as a gay writer, expresses his concern ...

Parnia Abbasi, 23, was described by friends as funny and full of life. She and her family were among the first people killed ...

Hushang Ebtehaj, a top Iranian poet who wrote under the pseudonym of “Sayeh”, died from complications related to old age in his home in Cologne, Germany, on Wednesday morning. He was 94.

TEHRAN, Iran — Houshang Ebtehaj, a distinguished Iranian poet whose small but influential body of work made him a major figure in his own country and in world literature, died on Wednesday in ...

Renowned Urdu poet Noon Meem Rashid took the lead by translating some sixty-one modern Persian poems by twenty-one modern Iranian poets into Urdu. (Cf. his book ‘Jadeed Farsi Shayeri’- 1987).

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, born in 1207 in the Persian Empire, wrote primarily in Persian with elements of Arabic and Turkish. His magnum opus, the Masnavi, often called the “Quran in verse,” is a spiritual guide ...

How did the Iranian-born artist Manoucher Yektai — a narrative poet and still-life painter who died in 2019 at the age of 98 — end up lumped in with American Abstract Expressionism and its ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — An artist who goes by the name Persian Poet creates signs on New York City sidewalks that people passing by may or may not be looking for. The anonymous artist is working to ...