Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī or Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273) was a 13th-century Persian poet, Islamic scholar and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran. Rumi's influence transcends national borders and ethnic divisions: Iranians, Tajiks, ...
Published in 1721 by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, "Persian Letters" (French: Lettres persanes) is a novel that recounted the experiences of two fictional Persian noblemen, Usbek and Rica, who spend several years in France under Louis XIV and the Regency. Persian ...
Culture and Society Blog, Kodoom.com /The historic city of Isfahan is among the most popular travel destinations in Iran during the Norooz (Persian New Year) spring holiday./Registered as a UNESCO's World Heritage site, Naqsh-e Jahan (which in Persian means the intaglio or ...
Culture Video Blog /A good video to share with non-Iranian English speaking friends about Persian/Iranian/Afghan/Kurdish New Year, Nowruz (or Norooz). Did you know that there is a joyous giving character associated with Norooz (similar to Santa Claus) called Uncle Nowruz?/This ...
Culture and Society Blog, Kodoom.com /An Elamite clay tablet was discovered within the Burnt City by a team of Iranian, Italian, and Serbian archeologists./The finding of such [clay] tablets is not unusual in Iran’s western areas, but leading Iranian archaeologist ...
Society and Culture Blog, Kodoom.com /There are still several large Iranian tribes that depend on a nomadic lifestyle. Nomads like Iran's Bakhtiari tribe, still seasonally migrate, as in ancient times, through treacherous mountain passes, deep gorges and jagged peaks./The ...
Culture and History Blog /Persian news publications have published centennial images from Iran, originally published in the 1921 issue of National Geographic./ / / / / / /Related to History: /Related to Tehran:
Culture News Blog, Kodoom.com /According to Persian news sources, part of Arch of Ctesiphon (in Persian: Taqh Kasra), an ancient Persian monument near Baghdad has collapsed./Recent damage to the Taq Kasra, a 1,500-year-old architectural masterpiece in Iraq, has renewed urgent ...
Culture Video Blog, Kodoom.com /Interesting video compares 70 words in selected Indo-European languages and Proto-Indo-European (PIE) reconstrunctions. Languages featured include: Iranian (Avestan), Hittite (Anatolian), Baltic (Old Prussian and Lithuanian), Slavic (Old Church ...
According to Fox News, Donald Trump is now blaming a malfunctioning teleprompter for a historic gaffe in his Independence Day speech in which he mistakenly said the Army took over airports during the 18th century American Revolution! He also seemed to confuse that Revolutionary ...
