Ties between fathers and sons are notoriously fraught. Orhan Pamuk, Turkey’s only Nobel laureate in literature, begins his latest novel with epigraphs that announce both patricide and filicide. “The ...

A minstrel named Kamous is standing before Rostam. One out of many stories he has recited for people is: What befell Sohrab with Rostam. Rostam believes that the story the minstrel is narrating-- the ...

Step into a world where legends are reborn and new heroes rise in Rostam & Sohrab: A New Dawn. This innovative musical experience presents a fresh take on the timeless tale of the Shahnameh, where the ...

“The Scarlet Stone,” a dance-theater retelling of a tragic Persian myth about a hero father and his son, could not be performed in present day Iran. There, due to the exegeses of the state religion, ...