Arthur John Arberry, Cambridge University professor of Arabic and authority on Persian, is a plump and hearty gentleman with a stiff black mustache who long ago made up his mind about one thing.

There’s a long history of women writing as a feminist act. For someone to declare the social value of their experiences — either through fiction, or in memoir, written with a strong “I” — is almost ...

A Dutch researcher known as “the Indiana Jones of the art world” beat German and Iranian law enforcement officials to recover an ancient volume of 15th-century Persian poetry that was the subject of a ...

When Bahareh Hedayat wanted to find immersion classes in Persian language and culture for her young children, she couldn’t find any close to home. So the Irvine resident created her own language ...

Dutch art detective Arthur Brand, lauded as the Indiana Jones of the art world, has solved another major case, recovering an ancient manuscript known as the Diwan of Hafez. Featuring the collected ...

An advance copy caught the eyes of our staff when it came through the PW newsroom this year—a rare occurrence considering the volume of incoming books for review. That ARC, for Najmieh Batmanglij’s ...