Obeyd-e Zakani, who died in 1372 is among the great poets of Iran but little known in the West. T...

Persian Text of the Poems in Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz, introduced and transla...

Amir Abbas Hoveyda was a central figure in the historic struggle between modernity and tradition ...

Links with the Hinterland focuses on two related themes: the importance of what goes on in a port...

Some of the most fascinating human epochs lie in the borderlands between history and mystery. So ...

To the task of chronicling the waning years of Persia's Qajar court, Dust-Ali Khan 'Mo`ayyer al-M...

The Chinese invented papermaking, which by the 8th century had reached the Muslim world in Samark...

In the interests of exploiting Iran's location and natural resources to launch a projected attack...

A remarkable woman who lived through extraordinary times, Houri Mostofi was born in Tehran, Iran,...

Iranian women have been writing Persian poetry for over a thousand years, and in the tumult of ou...

this is the first of a projected six-volume collection, covering four turbulent decades of Iran's...