Before I enlist the words that English has borrowed from Persian, I would like to share with you some musings on borrowings and the words English has borrowed, which Robert Claiborne has penned in his ...
The etymology of Persian words is not always very familiar to the public. In contrast, the roots of words in other languages, such as Arabic and English, are more accessible. For example, it is easy ...
Representations of Afghan cultural identity in the American consciousness are few and far between. It would be hard to dispute that the most famous of these representations is authored by Khaled ...
The Arabic word habibi means "my love," an apt descriptor for Rahill Jamalifard's feelings about her Iranian upbringing and the music she creates. Jamalifard is the frontwoman for Habibi, the Brooklyn ...
As government functioning are becoming more and more transparent the world over especially among democracies, it will always be in mutual interests of the citizen and the state to become more ...
During a prolific 200-year period in the 14th–16th centuries, four master calligraphers invented one of the most aesthetically refined forms of Persian culture: nasta‘liq, a type of calligraphy so ...
When I told friends and family that I was going to Israel to study Farsi for a week, I was met with no end of quizzical looks. Why there? Is there nowhere in Europe you could try? I had already spent ...
On December 11, 2019, the Delhi High Court issued a ruling in a public interest litigation asking that the Delhi Police be stopped from using difficult Persian and Urdu words in their first ...
Before I enlist the words that English has borrowed from Persian, I would like to share with you some musings on borrowings and the words English has borrowed, which Robert Claiborne has penned in his ...
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