seek guidance in the poems of the celebrated Persian poet Hafez, drink hot tea, and, of course, eat. The ceremony of staying up all night goes by the wonderfully descriptive term “night-grazing ...

Their latest production, “Woven Verses: Poetic Resistance & Resilience,” braids the past and present together via classical and contemporary Persian poetry by Rumi, Hafez and Furūgh ...

Hafiz, Jami, Edward FitzGerald, Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning, Edward Byles Cowell, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, and addressed broader contexts including the reception of Persian poetry in Britain and ...