On Monday, Nov. 17, novelist Hamid Ismailov and translator Shelley Fairweather-Vega visited Swarthmore to discuss their recent collaborative work, “We Computers.” The novel, authored by Ismailov and ...

The saying goes, everyone ends up where they are meant to be, and that certainly rings true for Penn’s number one squash player senior Omar Hafez. Hafez’s journey begins in his hometown of Alexandria, ...

The performance is a continuation of the group’s provincial tour, which has previously included Shiraz and Sari, IRNA reported on Wednesday. Amir Pourkhalaji has composed the music for this opera, ...

A new organisation aimed at promoting Islamic arts and heritage has launched at the House of Lords in Westminster. More than a hundred people packed into a room in the House of Lords to mark the ...

Greetings, loyal flesh-based readers! LOLtron welcomes you to another installment of comic book previews from the Bleeding Cool website, now under the complete and ...

Brisbane couple Persian Poet and Musician Siyavash Doostkhah and Greta Kelly wove the music from the tanbur and shah kaman with the mystical poetry of Attar Nayshapuri, Hafez and Rumi and others to ...

Tehran, IRNA – Beijing’s Peking University has held a ceremony to commemorate Hafez, the revered 14th-century Iranian poet, with Chinese scholars highlighting his global influence and describing his ...

Li Shujing, Chair of the Foreign Languages Department Council at Peking University, and Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli, Iran’s Ambassador to China, delivered speeches at the event. A number of professors and ...

ANKARA — Iran and Turkey, two nations with intertwined histories stretching back centuries, are commemorating 2025 as a “Cultural Year” dedicated to celebrating their longstanding cultural and ...

Tehran, IRNA — Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Abbas Salehi says that Iran and Turkey have preserved culture and literature as a common asset and shared heritage. Speaking at a ceremony in ...

Hafez, born in Shiraz in the 14th century, is widely regarded as one of the most influential Persian poets of all time. His works, compiled in the Divan of Hafez, explore themes of love, spirituality, ...