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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

My father recited Rumi to me as I grew up. I finally chose to listen. By Melody Moezzi Ms. Moezzi is a writer and activist. Five years ago, in an act of creative desperation, I decided to immerse ...

13th-century Persian poet Rumi is, almost 800 years later, as big as he's ever been. His words are everywhere: featured on Coldplay songs, inked on Brad Pitt's bicep, omnipresent on Twitter and ...

At a busy subway station in central Tehran, an excerpt from an iconic Persian poem from 13th century poet and mystic Jalaluddin al-Rumi greets travelers as they hop on and off, bringing smiles to ...