David McCloskey keeps writing spy thrillers – and the plots keep coming true. In the opening of his latest novel The Persian, ...

The Shahnameh, the world's longest epic by Ferdowsi, narrates Iran's ancient past. New translations are introducing its ...

The book has been translated by Rena Rzayeva, a Persian literature scholar of the Institute of Oriental Studies at the Azerbaijan National Academy of Science, which is the publisher of the book. “This ...

The second volume of Persian: Here and Now (Mage: summer 2014) authored by our Persian instructor and coordinator of Persian (Farsi) program recently released and will be used this year as a course ...

Arthur John Arberry, Cambridge University professor of Arabic and authority on Persian, is a plump and hearty gentleman with a stiff black mustache who long ago made up his mind about one thing.

A new exhibition at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., offers a glimpse into the rich literary tradition of the Persian language. Titled "A Thousand Years of The Persian Book," the exhibit ...

When Bahareh Hedayat wanted to find immersion classes in Persian language and culture for her young children, she couldn’t find any close to home. So the Irvine resident created her own language ...

Last week at a media preview for "Shahnama: 1000 Years of the Persian Book of Kings," the Sackler Gallery's new exhibit, chief curator Massumeh Farhad pulled back the black gallery doors to allow a ...

Imagine a 948-page book so large that, open, it stretches 3 feet across. Imagine further that as you read of heroism and intrigue, romance and war, bloody battles and festive celebrations, every so ...

As the representative of the German Book Art Foundation in Iran, Shabaviz Publications chose the Iranian books for the competition, the managing director of the publication Farideh Khalatbari ...