Look back and forward in these visual arts shows celebrating SG60. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

First is a novel by the Algerian novelist Yasmina Khadra, perhaps best known for his book The Swallows of Kabul. Except I’m not reading that - I’m reading The Angels Die. I first picked up this book ...

Iran is a country with a rich heritage, where every street has traces of ancient civilisations, and the architecture ...

Dive deep into the soul of Iran, where culture, history, and tradition merge into a timeless landscape. This documentary takes you through the literary and architectural splendors of Shiraz, a city ...

This time of year, for 55 years, Fort Wayne delivered a varied roster of community-building exercises. We knew them as the ...

Fourteen years make for deep enough memory. But geopolitical events that recently gripped global attention revived milestone ...

Deep reflections at Persian tombs Tagore was deeply moved while visiting the tombs of poets Sa'di and Hafez. He saw them as kindred spirits, crossing time and borders.

The Iranian-American painter’s remote former hunting lodge in the hamlet of Garrison is a place for contemplation in complex times ...

The spiritual path we know as Sufism has stretched across centuries in the form of poetry, devotional song, dance and ...

This paradox, for good historical and doctrinal reasons, is practically a trope in classical Persian and Urdu poetry, from Rumi and Hafiz to Faiz and Ahmad Faraz — a trope drizzling forth in all ...