In the winding alleys of southern Iran, artist Adel Yazdi has taken it upon himself to turn his rustic old neighbourhood into ...

A Bahai poet and writer is set to be returned to prison in Iran after undergoing open-heart surgery, a France-based group representing Iran's largest religious minority said Thursday.

A new exhibition spotlights the ways in which cultures around the world have sought answers in the face of uncertainty ...

I CONFESS I owe a great deal to Hegel, Goethe, Mirza Ghalib, Mirza Abdul Qadir Bedil and Wordsworth. The first ...

A proponent of the Iranian tradition says she can no longer imagine celebrating Hanukkah without poetry or Yalda without ...

In one of his Persian Ghazals, Ghalib awakens man to his essence – the essence which is atemporal and transcends the limits ...

Erev Yalda is a new ritual that finds beautiful meaning in combining Hanukkah with the ancient Persian tradition of Yalda.

"Dil dhoondta hai phir wahi fursat ke raat din..." How often do we find ourselves yearning for the timeless verses of Mirza ...

Yalda Night (Shab-e Chelleh) is a Persian winter celebration held on or around December 20 or 21 each year.

Prominent figures in Persian calligraphy, including Gholamhossein Amirkhani, Ali Shirazi, Mojtaba Malekzadeh, Mohammad Heydari, and Hamid Ajami attended the event among others, ISNA reported. It took ...

In his long epic poem, “Jacob and the Wolf,” the poet re-imagines the story of how Joseph’s brothers, the sons of Jacob, sold ...