Thou art unworthy to be called by the name of a man.* Teachers usually spurred students on to memorize it in class or as homework, something that seemed boring and nonsensical! Teachers and parents ...

The event honored the legacy of Abu’l-Qasem Ferdowsi Tusi (c. 935– c. 1020-26 CE), the celebrated Persian poet and author of the Shahnameh (“Book of Kings”), the Persian national epic, which, ...

In the category of translation from Persian into Arabic, “The Desert” (“Al-Sahra”) by Hasan al-Sarraf received first prize. The book features articles by Iranian scholar Ali Shariati, the organizers ...

To write a literary history of Persia is to chronicle the thought and development of the land of Iran, from the time of the prophet Zoroaster and the laws of the Medes and Persians down to the latest ...

There is something truly magnificent about poetry and literature in any language. One could say poetry is language in its most exalted form, where words’ every conceivable and unfathomable ...

With Persian lending to several regional languages, primary among them Urdu, scholars at a moot on it stressed the need for promoting the language for collective success. Terming the Persian language ...

It took Iranian Jews now living in the United States nearly three decades in exile from the land they called home for roughly 2,700 years to appreciate their rich history and culture preserved in ...

L: The World of Persian Literary Humanism' by Hamid Dabashi (Harvard University Press, 2012). R: The author (Golbarg Bashi). Hamid Dabashi is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and ...

From Rumi to Hafez, Persian literature is full of gems One of the world’s oldest, most vibrant, and yet still thriving literary traditions, its impact spans centuries and continents. Were it only ...

When Orly Noy did a Hebrew-language Google search for “Persian literature” Google asked her: “Do you mean Russian literature?” Amazingly, not a single Persian novel had ever been translated into ...