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Attar's Conference of the Birds

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

Writer: Sepehr Ardana

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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 ...
- Khaled’s Ladder
  [embed]https://youtu.be/av1lfPEE4kA?t=26[/embed] Khaled Jarrar is a multidisciplinary Palestinian artist who through his creative work has been exploring the...
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  Since December 2017, Iran’s currency, the rial, has lost one-third of its value. And on April 10, the exchange rate’s rapid depreciation prompted the government...