The Iranology Foundation hosted a ceremony on Wednesday evening to mark Ferdowsi Day, gathering scholars, cultural experts, ...

From Naushahro Feroze to Sehwan, Sufi Shah Naseer’s legacy of love and pluralism lives through his poetry and devotees ...

These are strange times, my dear, they smell your breath to see if you have spoken of love.” In Shida Bazyar’s The Nights Are ...

A quarter of a century may have passed after his demise, but the memory of Majrooh Sultanpuri continues to pervade the Indian ...

Sitting in a circle, the Rumi Poetry Club are people who come from various walks of life, all bound together by the writings ...

The National Day of Omar Khayyam, a distinguished figure in Persian literature, mathematics, and astronomy, is celebrated in ...

Azerbaijan’s freestyle tradition Meykhana thrives in Baku's taverns, where poets like Mehman duel with words.

At the Morgan Library, 15th-century illuminated atlases embody the medieval appetite for wonder and myth. If the past is a ...

TEHRAN - The Persian translation of the novel “The Other Name” written by Jon Fosse has been released in the Iranian ...

NSW Literary Awards, Nam Le took out Book of the Year for his second book, while Hasib Hourani won the poetry prize with his debut.

Today is the 126th anniversary of birth of national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam. On the eve of the day, interim government chief ...

"As you go on and get whacked around by life, you realise not knowing ... Hourani grew up between the Arab states of the Persian Gulf and Australia, reading the poetry of WB Yeats and later ...