I’m a middle-aged lawyer, mother of two college kids and, now, a certified Ed Sheeran fangirl. I’ve spent the last three weeks religiously scrolling Instagram and TikTok, searching for every teaser, ...

From the eleventh century until the fifteenth, verse romance was the most popular narrative genre of Persian poetry. The earliest examples are very charming “entertainments” and are completely lacking ...

Iranians commemorate the National Day of Attar Nishapuri or Neyshaburi, a 12th-century great Iranian poet whose “The ...

It became quite popular and Iranian poets, too, began composing poems that were called shehr aashob and, alternatively, shehr anges, with a distinct lampooning and disparaging tone. Masood Sa’ad ...

Chinese elements became an essential source of inspiration for Persian poets, who not only wove Chinese landscapes, characters and stories into their verses, but also expressed deep admiration and ...