“The Farsi language is a poetic language,” says Masud Valipour, owner of Ketabsara Persian Calligraphy and Books in Westwood’s Persian Square. He gestures along the store’s walls where turquoise, jade ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

The works of 14th century Persian poet Hafez are iconic in Iran. Poet and scholar Dick Davis has spent years bringing the medieval writer’s words to the West. Jeffrey Brown talks to Davis about his ...

Each year on September 18, Iranians commemorate Seyed Mohammad-Hossein Behjat Tabrizi, better known by his pen name Shahriar, one of the most celebrated poets of modern Iran. The day is officially ...

Foreword -- Chapter 1: The Panegyrical Qaside-A Brief Historical Preview / J.T.P. de Bruijn -- Chapter 2: The Panegyric Qaside In The Eastern Iranian World: Court Poetry In The Samanid And Ghaznavid ...

Iranian-born artist Sussan Sanavandi recently opened her own gallery on Spring Street, and the work is unique and quite poetic with its calligraphic and harmonious elements. And it's no surprise the ...

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 ...