With Nowruz just around the corner, The Skirball Cultural Center and the Irvine Barclay Theatre will celebrate the Persian New Year with two very special concerts by the Grammy-nominated Ghazal ...
The Grammy Award-winning Ghazal Ensemble reunite to perform their distinctive mix of Persian and Hindustani classical music, recalling age-old traditions which have been historically and culturally ...
Although considered a 'modern' poet, unlike most of her contemporaries (e.g. Ahmad Shamlou, Mehdi Akhavan-e Sales, and Nader Naderpour), Simin Behbahani, has, on the whole, avoided the free verse ...
KL Saigal (left) and Iqbal Bano. | Image of KL Saigal in public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Screenshot of Iqbal Bano from Best Of Iqbal Bano Ghazals, Jukebox 2, Top 10 Best Pakistani Ghazal Hits; ...
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In “The World of Persian Literary Humanism,” Hamid Dabashi writes that “the physical beauty” of Hafez’s poetry is “above and beyond anything achieved before or after in Persian lyrics.” These days, ...
Kader Abdolah, a Dutch-Iranian author, honors Farsi poet Mirza Ghalib in Delhi, reflecting on the language's journey and Ghalib's legacy. Best to start at the beginning. Farsi took its earliest form a ...
WE may well take pride for what has been recognised as the best in Urdu poetry. Yet, can we really claim it as our own when much of it has been borrowed from a foreign tradition? To be more explicit, ...
One of the South Asia's most loved Ghazal, Thumri and classical singers, Iqbal Bano, died on Tuesday at a local hospital in Lahore. She has also sung many memorable Pakistani film songs, reports Kamal ...