October 11 is designated National Hafez Day in the Persian calendar. It is a day in which the great Persian poet Hafez is honored in Iran. Every year Hafez Commemoration Week is held during the week ...

From Shiraz to modern homes, Hafez's divination book continues to offer guidance, comfort, and profound reflections on love, ...

Dick Davis spoke to PBS NewsHour chief arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown about his new book “Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz.” According to Dick Davis, Hafez is the poetry world’s version ...

Dutch art detective Arthur Brand, lauded as the Indiana Jones of the art world, has solved another major case, recovering an ancient manuscript known as the Diwan of Hafez. Featuring the collected ...

“Hafez: The Nectar of Love, Ghazals Selected from the Divan of Hafez” (“Hafez: Nectarul Iubirii, Ghazaluri alese din Divan-ul lui Hafez”) has been rendered into Romanian by Sara Esterabadeyan, a ...

The works of 14th century Persian poet Hafez are iconic in Iran. Poet and scholar Dick Davis has spent years bringing the medieval writer’s words to the West. Jeffrey Brown talks to Davis about his ...

Addressing a press conference in Shiraz for the 28th Hafez Commemoration Week, Hamidreza Ghanei said that this year's events are split into two primary categories: cultural and artistic performances ...

In “The World of Persian Literary Humanism,” Hamid Dabashi writes that “the physical beauty” of Hafez’s poetry is “above and beyond anything achieved before or after in Persian lyrics.” These days, ...

Shams al-Din Mohammad was born sometime between the years 1310-1337, in Shiraz, in Fars province, the city which is known as the city of love, poetry, and civilization. He memorized the Holy Quran by ...

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