Friday, July 4, 2008 
Niloufar Talebi and The Translation Project are the forces behind a really cool event going on in San Francisco this week: the inaugural Iranian Literary Arts Festival, which features film screenings and the world premiere of ICARUS/RISE, a multimedia play inspired by contemporary Iranian poetry. Entry to the festival comes with buying a ticket to […]
Filed under: ART, COMMUNITY, CULTURE, DANCE, EVENTS, POETRY, THEATER
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Today’s Washington Post extensively covered Persian poet Rumi, who’s been dead for hundreds of years but must be tickled about UNESCO’s declaration that 2007 is the International Year of Rumi.
Rumi was born in present-day Afghanistan and died in present-day Turkey, and according to Wikipedia, he wrote primarily in Persian but also penned some verses in […]
Filed under: CULTURE, EVENTS, HISTORY, POETRY
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Had she not died in a car accident 40 years ago, Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad would have turned 72 years old last week. Farrokhzad was the Sylvia Plath of Iran: beautiful, depressed, unconventional, feminist, and she died very young, though not of suicide. Married in her late teens, she had a baby and got divorced […]
Filed under: NOSTALGIA, POETRY
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