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Ferdowsi and ShahnamehBy: Abdulhussein Zarrinkoub Each nation’s poetry can be classified into several distinctive types. One is the poem about the beauty of a lover or the spring ...
Iranian-Dutch Artist Atousa BandehAtousa’s mind-boggling paintings and drawings have many autobiographical elements. These tend to be her most intimate, and therefore all the more universal, exp...
“Until we leave this plain of sin and pride…” Attar’s Conference of the BirdsFarid-ad-Din Muhammad Attar (1145-1220) is one of the three pillars of Persian Sufi literature. Sana’i Ghaznavi, who for the first time, exerted love poetry to ...