Aysha Khan examines the effacement of the female voice in the literary traditions of the Persianate world, from the days of the Mughals to the present
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Whirl’d Music
Songlines’ Editor-in-Chief, Simon Broughton, on the sights and sounds of the 11th edition of the Mystic Music Festival in Konya, Turkey, held in honour of Rumi
A Thousand Years of the Persian Book
Kevin Schwartz on an exhibition at Washington, DC’s Library of Congress celebrating a millennium of Persian textual production from Iran and beyond
Null: A Persian Tale
‘… That lonely one turned his head to the vernal moon above, whispering softly, ‘My silent city – where art the soul of thy springs?’