Mehr 8 in the Iranian calendar is considered a significant cultural event for Iranians to commemorate the prominent Iranian poet Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi who needs no introduction when it comes to ...

During the last decades of his life, the Persian poet Rumi was surrounded by news of terrorism, just as we are eight centuries later. Those were the days of Mongol invasions that swept past the ...

Rumi was a 13th-century Muslim, but he's the most downloaded poet in America. Now a Dallas chorus - with an Iranian composer and a Syrian digital artist - has created a rapturous version of Rumi's ...

To read Rumi is to encounter him—to come face to face with him, and with oneself, through his poetry. The 13th-century Persian poet and Sufi mystic’s simple, plainspoken verses are vast and deep, a ...

Dr. Leo Parvis, a cultural diversity/global studies professor at Dunwoody Technical College and “Eye on Diversity” columnist for the Chaska Herald, has recently released a book of translated poems by ...

Eight centuries after the birth of the famed Persian poet and mystic, the tussle for the cultural legacy of Jalal al-Din Mohammad Balkhi, better known as Rumi, just won't die. Afghanistan, Iran, and ...

David Franzoni, who wrote the script for 2000’s Gladiator, and Stephen Joel Brown have a plan for an exciting new movie: it’s a biopic of the 13th-century Persian poet and philosopher Rumi, who — and ...

Arriving in New York City at the age of 19 to study music, Hafez Nazeri knew he wanted to do big things. Now, little more than a decade later, the young Iranian classical composer is riding high with ...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella likes to test AI using a poetry prompt. Nadella will ask the AI to translate the work of Persian poet Rumi. He said GPT-4's answer "preserved the sovereignty of poetry ...

Eight centuries after the birth of the famed Persian poet and mystic, the tussle for the cultural legacy of Jalal al-Din Mohammad Balkhi, better known as Rumi, just won't die. Afghanistan, Iran, and ...