As Iran welcomes the first day of spring, two significant occasions converge on March 21st: Nowruz, the Persian New Year, and ...

Diverse elements of Chinese culture and civilization have influenced Persian literature, particularly Persian poetry. Many ...

From the eleventh century until the fifteenth, verse romance was the most popular narrative genre of Persian poetry. The earliest examples are very charming ...

While core acts of devotion take center stage, qasidas (Islamic odes) and devotional poetry serve as powerful complements, ...

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has met with groups of young and veteran poets as well as ...

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei met and held talks with a number of poets and activists of Persian culture and literature.

Bay Area audiences first got to know the Vahdats via their work with the Kronos Quartet, which connected with Mahsa via exiled Iranian composer Sahba Aminikia when he served as artist-in-residence ...