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Before teaching Persian at the University, Michelle Quay, visiting lecturer in language studies, spent several years working on a Persian poetry group at the University of Cambridge alongside Annabel ...

"Do you have the original edition of this book?" It's a question many Iranian booksellers are confronted with as customers seek out some prominent Persian classics. From the 14th-century satirical ...

He’s the Aya-trollah. Iran Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei apparently trolled President Trump by reading a translated copy of “Fire and Fury” — Michael Wolff’s controversial tell-all about the Trump ...

Historical rupture is a terrible thing; it throws centuries into the darkness of amnesia. How hard it is for us to imagine today, for example, the vast human network of the Persianate empires. It is ...

Q. What are you currently reading? A: I am reading a book on Persian poetry by Bidal Dehlavi. It is a treat to read the work of the great Persian poet, who influenced Asadullah Khan Ghalib and Allama ...