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Malik Muhammad Danish is a young (serving) Pakistani diplomat with a passion for languages and literature —- ‘a polyglot, at home in Urdu, Punjabi, English, Persian, Chinese, and Spanish’. He is an ...

Tayammomdari opened the session by pointing out that scholars in European countries realized long ago that comparative literary studies opened large windows through which they could peruse the history ...

While Nowruz marks the renewal of life and the rebirth of nature, poetry has long been a profound vessel for expressing these very themes—growth, transformation, and the passage of time. This year, ...

“Modern Poetry of Iran” comprises works of renowned Iranian poets, translated into English by Delhi-based Persian scholar Aziz Mahdi. A new anthology of more than 85 acclaimed Persian poems gives ...

The recent death of William Weaver, the acclaimed translator of Italo Calvino, Umberto Eco, Primo Levi, and other modern Italian authors, spurred memories of the translation class he taught at ...

Imgenin Çocuklari, a major publisher based in Istanbul, has released the book “Eighth Note: Silence” (“Sekizinci Nota: Suskunluk”) translated by Donya Mirzai. An Arabic translation of Sadipur’s poetry ...

Stay on top of what’s happening in the Bay Area with essential Bay Area news stories, sent to your inbox every weekday. The Bay Bay Area-raised host Ericka Cruz Guevarra brings you context and ...

At a busy subway station in central Tehran, an excerpt from an iconic Persian poem from 13th century poet and mystic Jalaluddin al-Rumi greets travelers as they hop on and off, bringing smiles to ...

The first-ever multimedia concert production of the Persian Trilogy, based on the Persian national epic poem Shahnameh, will make history tomorrow at Roy Thomson Hall. Members of the Toronto Symphony ...