Persian Scholar Ibn Sina First Came Up With Idea of Quarantine

Rasia Hashmi Pakistan’s Siasat News, April 06, 2020 “Ibn Sina was a Persian polymath who is regarded as one of the most significant physicians, astronomers, thinkers and writers of the Islamic Golden... Read more »

PCIA (Peace Corps Iran Association)

Brian H Appleton (contributing journalist) In the face of ever-worsening relations between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran, a group of Americans, most of whom lived in Iran as Peace... Read more »

Money Transfer From Iran Under U.S. Sanctions

By: Zaher Fallahi, Attorney At Law, CPA OFAC Regulations Regarding Iran The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Office Assets Control (OFAC) administers and enforces economic sanctions against countries, groups and individuals. The... Read more »

A Question and Answer with Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr. & Iraj Anvar

Translators of Eighty ghazals from the Díwán of Háfiz about their book:  Wine, Prayer and Hafiz of Shiraz Who is Hafiz? EG:  Hafiz of Shiraz, (d. 1389) is quite simply the most ... Read more »

A Global Conspiracy

WSJ, NY POST & INTERNET Dear Editor, seldom in recent history we have witnessed such a horrible conspiracy. In fact the pandemic flue of 1917-18 did not happen because of the conspiracy... Read more »

Wine & Prayer and Hafiz of Shiraz — A New Edition of the Persian Master’s Poetry

Translated by: Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr. and Iraj Anvar Ashland, OR, October 2, 2019 While tensions between the United States and Iran continue to oscillate, a new book of translations of Hafiz... Read more »

The Sakas — Part Eleven

Michael McClain The relevance of the information given immediately below to the central topic of this essay will shortly become obvious. St. Dennis, or, in French, St. Denis, the “ Apostle of... Read more »

Persian Roots of Puccini’s Opera Turandot (Turandokht)​​

Dr. Asghar Seyed Gohrab Senior University Lecturer at Leiden University This article has been dedicated to Dr. Rokus de Groot (University of Amsterdam) What is the place on earth that saw the... Read more »

Ghazal 8

When you hear the words of those who know, don’t say they are wrong. You do not understand such speech, my lovely one. That is what’s wrong. I do not acknowledge this... Read more »

2020:​ Millennium of Ferdowsi

Rasoul Sorkhabi Anniversaries are important; they celebrate legacies and signify presence and continuity. This year, 2020, marks the 1000th anniversary of Ferdowsi’s death. This renowned Persian poet died at age 81 in... Read more »