Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah founded Hyderabad in 1591 by turning crisis into vision. Escaping plague and overcrowding in Golconda ...

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 ...

Persian and other Islamic literature celebrated male homoerotic love as a form of divine longing – until Western moral codes ...

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 ...

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 subspecies, ...

Iran is a deeply misunderstood country. Frequently, we in the United States are bombarded with news about its repressive and extremist government — but rarely do we actually engage with the country’s ...

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 ...

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LOWELL — Iranian writer, activist and feminist scholar Fatemeh Shams has been named UMass Lowell’s 2024 Greeley Scholar for Peace Studies. Shams is a poet and essayist whose leadership in Iran’s Green ...

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 ...

To Baron von Hammer Purgstall, who died in Vienna during the last year, we owe our best knowledge of the Persians. He has translated into German, besides the “ Divan ” of Hafiz, specimens of two ...