The intricacies of poetry can be quite remarkable. Carefully crafted form, wording, and symbolism alone are hard to capture ...

My country, I will build you again, / if need be, with bricks made from my life.”  That line from Iranian poet Simin ...

A TASTE for Oriental poetry — or such quality of it as drips through the sieve of English translation — is, I fancy, an acquired taste. Those who have made a close study of Eastern literature in this ...

Urdu poetry has always lived through the human voice. Its power lies not just in what is said, but in how it sounds ...

In this July 2005 photo provided by Iranian Students' News Agency, ISNA, Iranian poet Houshang Ebtehaj speaks in an interview, in Tehran, Iran. Ebtehaj, a distinguished Iranian poet whose small but ...

Without a doubt, this is helmer-scribe Asghar Farhadi’s year. In February, his fifth feature “A Separation,” became the first Iranian film to nab Berlin’s Golden Bear. A clear favorite of the ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Famed Iranian poet Simin Behbahani, who wrote of the joys of love, demanded equal rights for women and spoke out about the challenges facing those living in her homeland, died ...

This undated photo made available by the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran shows Iranian poets Fatemeh Ekhtesari, left, and Mehdi Mousavi. The two poets, who face lashings and prison ...

AMSTERDAM (AFP) — A stolen 15th-century book by the famed Persian poet Hafez has been recovered by a Dutch art detective after an international "race against time" that drew the alleged interest of ...

TEHRAN, IranTEHRAN, 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 ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Two Iranian poets who face lashings and prison sentences have fled Iran, one of the writers said Monday, a rare escape for local artists and activists ensnared in an ...