The honorary diploma and a copy of the Divan of Hafez were presented to Tsunoda by the Iranian cultural attaché in Japan, Hossein Divsalar, the Persian service of IRNA reported on Wednesday.

Craftsmen mounted the calligraphy in books, often inside gold borders and alongside elaborate illustrations. This folio dates to the 16th century. Freer/Sackler Gallery A Persian calligraphy that ...

In the United States, cursive is dying a slow, loopy death. Roughly only half of the states require kids to learn it, leaving a generation of children to try and decipher grandma’s birthday cards like ...

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 ...

Written by the celebrated Iranian calligrapher Hamidreza Qelichkhani, “A Handbook of Persian Calligraphy and Related Arts” was rendered by Rebecca Stengel. The book has been edited by Shervin ...

There is something truly magnificent about poetry and literature in any language. One could say poetry is language in its most exalted form, where words’ every conceivable and unfathomable ...

Persian is spoken today primarily in Iran, but was historically a more widely understood language in an area ranging from the Middle East to India. Significant populations of speakers in other Persian ...

Hassan Hussain completed his graduate studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago and the University of California, Los Angeles. He also studied at the American University of Cairo and the ...

There is something truly magnificent about poetry and literature in any language. One could say poetry is language in its most exalted form, where words’ every conceivable and unfathomable ...