Abolhassan Najafi Translation Award
First published: January 28, 2019 | Edit and update: March 3, 2025 Renowned Iranian writer and translator Abolhassan Najafi was born in Najaf of Iraq […]
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Seven Short Poems by Siavash Kasrai
For more than half a century, Siavash Kasrai has been celebrated as one of the most fervent literary figures of contemporary Persian poetry. His unyielding […]
Remembering Siavash Kasrai (Feb 25, 1927 – Feb 8, 1996)
February marks the anniversary of Siavash Kasrai’s birth and passing. Born in Isfahan, Iran, Kasrai was a prominent poet who graduated from the Faculty of […]
Two Poems by Maytham Khaghani
Freudian Discovery of Inner Self Comprised of complexes complicates my soul: Am I as attached as Electra to the one who hath begot me? Men, […]
English: Rice, Not Poetry
A Review of Sanaz Toossi’s play English English, the 2023 winner of Pulitzer Prize for Drama, is written by a contemporary Iranian-American playwright, Sanaz Toossi. […]
Palimpsesting the Raven: From Poe to Persian Poets
Out of all natural and supernatural beings, world poets have shown a particular and unique bonding with birds, from nightingales and peacocks to canaries, parrots, […]
Mohammad-Ali Eslami Nodooshan
(1925, Nodooshan – 2022, Toronto) Mohammad-Ali Eslami Nodooshan, eminent Iranian scholar, translator, poet, literary critic and professor of law and Persian literature at the University […]
Review: Niyayesh-Pand-e Pir-e Herat
The Annotated Preaching-Prayers of Khajeh Abdullah Ansari The present book contains a selection of writings by Khajeh Abdullah Ansari, a renowned mystic and a towering […]
Palette: Sadegh Tabrizi
Sadegh Tabrizi, born in March 3, 1938 in Tehran, was a pioneering modernist artist, calligrapher, designer, painter, and leader in the calligram [نقاشیخظ] painting in […]