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 ...

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 ...

“Modern Poetry of Iran” comprises works of renowned Iranian poets, translated into English by Delhi-based Persian scholar Aziz Mahdi. A new anthology of more than 85 acclaimed Persian poems gives ...

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 ...

The 14th-Century Persian poet Hafiz’s work is not just very beautiful – it is useful too. Hafiz can teach us how to get the most out of our lives, writes Daniel Ladinsky. Shams-ud-din Muhammad Hafiz ...

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, ...

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The poems, composed by Nima Yushij, Mehdi Akhavan-Salis, Sohrab Sepehri, Qeisar Aminpur, and Tahereh Saffarzadeh, are to be translated into English by Saeid Saeidpur and Mehdi Afshar, IPS Managing ...

Tiles with poems in the Persian language in Nizami Ganjavi's mausoleum in Azerbaijani city of Ganja will be replaced with analogous poems, but in the Azerbaijani language, the Director of Nizami ...