How poetry is used by Persian-speaking leaders to build legitimacy and shape the political narrative.

Malik Muhammad Danish is a young (serving) Pakistani diplomat with a passion for languages and literature —- ‘a polyglot, at home in Urdu, Punjabi, English, Persian, Chinese, and Spanish’. He is an ...

The National Day of Persian Poetry and Literature is observed every year on the death anniversary of the most prominent figure of contemporary Persian poetry Mohammad-Hossein Behjat Tabrizi – Shahriar ...

He fearlessly broke away from the traditional confines of classical poetry, ushering in a new era of literary innovation and artistic freedom. His audacious reimagining of poetic form and subject ...

According to the public relations office of the Art Bureau, in this meeting, 40 young and veteran poets recited their works on various religious, social, and political topics. After the poets' ...

While Nowruz marks the renewal of life and the rebirth of nature, poetry has long been a profound vessel for expressing these very themes—growth, transformation, and the passage of time. This year, ...

There's more than one way to cut a diamond. [ spotlight ] Classical Persian poetry is characterized by its creative and highly cultivated language as well as strict regularities of rhyme and meter.

Arriving in New York City at the age of 19 to study music, Hafez Nazeri knew he wanted to do big things. Now, little more than a decade later, the young Iranian classical composer is riding high with ...

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, ...

Persian poetry draws its main spirit from Hebrew and early Christian sources, though through the channel of Muhammedanism ; and we may say that it rises above or falls below the classical standards ...

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 ...