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 ...

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, ...

Imgenin Çocuklari, a major publisher based in Istanbul, has released the book “Eighth Note: Silence” (“Sekizinci Nota: Suskunluk”) translated by Donya Mirzai. An Arabic translation of Sadipur’s poetry ...

Mehr 8 in the Iranian calendar is considered a significant cultural event for Iranians to commemorate the prominent Iranian poet Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi who needs no introduction when it comes to ...

The recent death of William Weaver, the acclaimed translator of Italo Calvino, Umberto Eco, Primo Levi, and other modern Italian authors, spurred memories of the translation class he taught at ...

* Originally published on May 26, 2021. Mantiq ut-Tayr, or The Conference of the Birds, is a 12th-century Persian poem telling the story of a group of birds setting out to find God and enlightenment.

At a busy subway station in central Tehran, an excerpt from an iconic Persian poem from 13th century poet and mystic Jalaluddin al-Rumi greets travelers as they hop on and off, bringing smiles to ...

Jaunzeme-Grende, who served as the Latvian culture minister from 2011 to 2013, made the remarks in a seminar on Ziedonis and the impression of Persian poet Molana Jalal ad-Din Rumi’s poetry on Latvian ...

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MINSK, 19 May (BelTA) - Yakub Kolas' poems will be translated into Persian for the first time, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Iran to Belarus Saeed Yari told BelTA on the sidelines of ...