How poetry is used by Persian-speaking leaders to build legitimacy and shape the political narrative.

The late Bahram Beyzai, former Bita Daryabari Visiting Professor of Iranian Studies, left a lasting cultural legacy as an writer, director and playwright.

Whatsapp Between 1500 and 1900, Kashmiri literature evolved under Persian dominance, producing enduring lyric, Sufi, Bhakti, masnawi and marsiya traditions through poets who vernacularised elite ...

Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah founded Hyderabad in 1591 by turning crisis into vision. Escaping plague and overcrowding in Golconda ...

Federal Way community members shared poems and ate traditional treats of pomegranates and homemade cookies at a celebration of Persian holiday Yalda Night, or Shab-e Yalda (or Chela, depending on the ...