seek guidance in the poems of the celebrated Persian poet Hafez, drink hot tea, and, of course, eat. The ceremony of staying up all night goes by the wonderfully descriptive term “night-grazing ...
Their latest production, “Woven Verses: Poetic Resistance & Resilience,” braids the past and present together via classical ...
Hafez poetry reading is also one of the popular ... ČAHĀRŠANBE’ is the Persian word for Wednesday, and “Suri” has two meanings – “festive” and “scarlet” – referring to fire ...
When Iranians worry about life's big questions, many seek answers in the works and wisdoms of Persia's most revered poet, Hafez - sometimes with the help of a parakeet. Retired housewife Mitra ...
Hafiz, Jami, Edward FitzGerald, Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning, Edward Byles Cowell, and Ralph Waldo Emerson), as well as material and cultural contexts, including medieval Persian poetry, the ...