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 ...

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 ...

Jennifer Lopez is wearing her heart on her tee and you can too. The triple-threat, 54, stepped out of her Beverly Hills hotel on Tuesday in a simple-and-sweet, fitted white tee which donned a ...

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.

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 ...