Summer was a sad season for Iranian Studies
Summer 2018 witnessed the death of some of the best Iranologists across the world. On 6th August 2018, Dr Leonard Lewisohn passed away at age […]
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Ahmad Samiee Guilani [b. 1920]
Ahmad Samiee Guilani is an eminent writer, translator, and editor. He was born in February of 1920 in Sangelaj neighborhood, Tehran. Having received elementary and […]
Dariush Shayegan, Author of Cultural Schizophrenia Dies
Iranian thinker and cultural theorist Dariush Shayegan passed away today (March 22) at Firouzgar Hospital of Tehran after two months in a coma.
Kadkani, a Gem of Khorasan
There are not many literary scholars in the history of Persian literature who are also great poets; neither are there many poets who made it […]
Profile: Ruyin Pakbaz [1939 – ]
Ruyin Pakbaz (1939, Tehran) is a prominent Iranian art historian, critic, educator and painter. He studied painting at Tehran University (1967) and then pursued his […]