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• “Until we leave this plain of sin and pride…” Attar’s Conference of the Birds

  Farid-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 ...

  
  
• French-Iranian Writer’s Debut Novel

  I’m always chasing after the present. But the present doesn’t exist. It’s only an intermission, a temporary respite, which might at any moment be swept away, de...

  
  
• The Blind Owl- According to Emran Salahi

  Emran Salahi The difference between our Ahmad Agha and Farhad was that Farhad had an ax in his hand, but Ahmad Agha had a pick on the neighbor’s wall. One...