“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside of you.” — Rumi A few months back, I got an apricot mini poodle. When meeting him for the first time, I gazed into his eyes and sensed a deep wisdom ...

ANYONE WHO STUMBLES upon the poetry of Rumi undoubtedly comes across Coleman Barks’ name as well. Never mind that the Persian poet lived in the 13th century and Barks, 75, lives in Athens, Ga., and ...

The words “Rumi” and “Disney” may not seem to belong in the same sentence -- or even the same location. But they’ll be together Friday night, when Iranian composer Hafez Nazeri presents the world ...

Rumi was a 13th-century Muslim, but he's the most downloaded poet in America. Now a Dallas chorus - with an Iranian composer and a Syrian digital artist - has created a rapturous version of Rumi's ...

TWO years ago I visited Nevin Halici, one of the most important Turkish food writers, at her home in Konya, Turkey, which is also the town where the famous 13th century Sufi poet Rumi spent most of ...

(RNS) — Some of Rumi’s best-known poems speak about uprootedness and the desire to relocate. Now they are helping refugee and US Muslim youth adjust. (RNS) — Friday (Sept. 30) is the 815th birthday of ...

Three women sit around a table, heads bowed low over their writing pads. Every now and then one stops to talk about the words she has written and the poem that inspired it. Next to each is a copy of ...

Each deck contains 78 “divination cards,” meant to function like tarot cards, featuring quotes from the authors’ work, with the tagline’s stated purpose “to inspire, provoke, contemplate and answer ...

'I want to create a revolution with love,' says Nazeri 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, ...