Tehran, IRNA — Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Abbas Salehi says that Iran and Turkey have preserved culture and ...

Rais Anis Sabri, a celebrated Sufi Qawwal, has released an Urdu rendition of Hazrat Amir Khusro's 13th-century Persian poem, ...

TEHRAN- The 2025 White Ravens Catalogue, compiled by Munich’s International Youth Library (Internationale Jugendbibliothek, IJB), includes five notable works by authors from Iran.

Today marks Hafez Day, a celebration of one of Iran's greatest poets whose words of love, mysticism, and human insight ...

TEHRAN- “Twelve,” a cultural and artistic multimedia project, has been launched to support the charitable efforts of the ...

Born in Shiraz between 1310 and 1325, Khajeh Shamseddin Mohammad Hafeẓ Shirazi, known by his pen name Hafez, is best known for his collection of poetry known as “Divan,” which is still read and ...

Woodward is a poet and translator who wrote the books Borrowed Tales and No Finis: Triangle Testimonies, 1911. She co-translated the poetry of Amelia Rosselli in Hospital Series, Obtuse Diary, The ...

Darius Atefat-Peckham will be reading from his award-winning poetry collection, “The Book of Kin,” on Thursday, October 23, in Stark 103 at 7 p.m. on the Winona State University campus ...

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

Mohammad Reza Shajarian, Iran's most celebrated musician and a critic of the government, was buried on Saturday near the 10th century national poet Ferdowsi, Iranian media reported.

Mohammad Reza Shajarian, who revived Iranian classical music and became a symbol for the opposition after a wave of unrest in 2009, has died in a Tehran hospital at the age of 80, state television ...

In this year’s poetry roundup, some of the poets whose collections we discuss are Catholic, some are not. But regardless of ...