Dick Davis spoke to PBS NewsHour chief arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown about his new book "Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz." According to Dick Davis, Hafez is the poetry world's version ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jug inscribed with Persian love poem unearthed in JerusalemA fragment of a Persia pottery vessel that dates back to the 12th or 13th centuries has been discovered in an archaeological dig in the Old ...

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 ...

Mashuq-E-Jaan’ by Dr. Shadab Ahmed commemorates and salutes the atmosphere and aura of love, longing, and desire for the ...

University of Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Weaving through the rooms of my Brisbane childhood home, carried on the languid, humid, sub-tropical air, was the sound of an ...

Dick Davis spoke to PBS NewsHour chief arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown about his new book “Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz.” According to Dick Davis, Hafez is the poetry world’s version ...