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 ...
"Do you have the original edition of this book?" It's a question many Iranian booksellers are confronted with as customers seek out some prominent Persian classics. From the 14th-century satirical ...
Q. What are you currently reading? A: I am reading a book on Persian poetry by Bidal Dehlavi. It is a treat to read the work of the great Persian poet, who influenced Asadullah Khan Ghalib and Allama ...
Historical rupture is a terrible thing; it throws centuries into the darkness of amnesia. How hard it is for us to imagine today, for example, the vast human network of the Persianate empires. It is ...