Iran has been the land of literature for centuries. Saadi Shirazi is one of the Iranian poets with international fame. His ...
Franklin D. Lewis, a distinguished scholar of Persian literature at the University of Chicago for nearly 20 years, passed away on Sept. 19 in Chicago after a long illness. He was 61. Throughout his ...
To write a literary history of Persia is to chronicle the thought and development of the land of Iran, from the time of the prophet Zoroaster and the laws of the Medes and Persians down to the latest ...
The certificate of permanent membership in the Academy of Persian Language and Literature was presented to Sadri Sadiev, ...
Persian literature (belles-lettres) from the earliest time to the time of Jāmī / George Morrison -- Medieval Ṣūfī literature in Persian prose / Julian Baldick -- Persian Ṣūfī poetry up to the ...
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 Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies hosted a culture and language day on Tuesday to commemorate the introduction of a newPersian studies concentration this fall that will be housed ...
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 ...
The Persian translation of the book “La littérature engage” (“Committed Literature” in English), written by Sylvie Servoise ...
The Olympiad is being sponsored by the cultural attaché of the Islamic Republic in Russia and Moscow University. Upgrading the level of Persian language and literature in higher education centers in ...
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When Orly Noy did a Hebrew-language Google search for “Persian literature” Google asked her: “Do you mean Russian literature?” Amazingly, not a single Persian novel had ever been translated into ...