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 ...

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 ...

Rumi was born to native Persian-speaking parents on the Eastern shores of the then Persian Empire on September 30, 1207, in the city of Balkh which is now part of Afghanistan, and finally settled in ...

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 ...

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 ...

What to call the Persian language in Afghanistan? It's a question Afghans have grappled with and sparred over for decades. The long-simmering dispute was reignited after the BBC changed the name of ...

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 ...