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 ...

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

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 ...

Two brothers have raised more than £680 to support children affected by conflict. Kian and Rory Henderson from Bradford organised a Persian poetry night on July 1 at the Millside Centre to launch ...

Two brothers have raised more than £680 to support children affected by conflict. Kian and Rory Henderson from Bradford ...

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

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

Alireza Iranmehr is an Iranian novelist and essayist. His latest book in Persian is Reading Hafez in Private. His work has appeared in English translation in Stories From the Center of the World: New ...

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

Urdu poetry still inspires people. While finding a sher or shayar is an issue, some platforms are giving a renewed push to a tradition in crisis.

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

On paper, pairing the poetry of 14th-century poet Hafiz, a Sufi mystic, with the music of Bach, a 17th-century German classical music composer, seems a bit of a stretch.