Fourteen years make for deep enough memory. But geopolitical events that recently gripped global attention revived milestone ...

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

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

I don't know." Ask a Persian? "Why no, my friend! I hate poetry! It's so antiquated!" "Oh. Do you know any good poems?" "Yes, I have several memorized. What are you in the mood for?" Look, I'm not ...

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 ...

Houshang Ebtehaj, prominent Iranian poet, dies at 94 Ebtehaj contributed to the popularity of the ghazal – a traditional form of Persian poetry set to music that expresses the writer’s ...

TEHRAN, Sep. 18 (MNA) – Today is the National Day of Persian Poetry and a good opportunity to learn more about some of the greatest Persian poets with their lasting influence on the Persian language ...

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 ...

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).

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 ...