Iran is a deeply misunderstood country. Frequently, we in the United States are bombarded with news about its repressive and extremist government — but rarely do we actually engage with the country’s ...

As a young man, Dick Davis fell in love with Iran and ever since he has dedicated his life to bringing its culture to the west. "Its been a wonderful odyssey." Here he reads his translations of a poem ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MINSK, 19 May (BelTA) - Yakub Kolas' poems will be translated into Persian for the first time, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Iran to Belarus Saeed Yari told BelTA on the sidelines of ...