New Year
I happen to hate New Year’s celebrations. Everybody desperate to have fun. Trying to celebrate in some pathetic little way. …
Tag Archives: Poetry
Black Lace
I was riding my scarlet horse towards the skies of glory when an arrow was shut from nowhere, nowhere that …
104 characters of solitude
When everyone else has left you, it is loneliness that you feel. But when you have left everyone, it will …
Eros Informula
Did he was caught as I was, by the contrasting shades of your white skin, your dark eyebrows and your …
Haiku of Light
The new year (2015) has officially been nominated as the “UNESCO International Year of Light”. What a good idea, has …
The way to catch your audience’ interest
At the annual Mouse Molecular Genetics conference at the Sanger Center in Hinxton. Some of the presentations seem to attract …
Love and Devotion: Exhibition at the Bodleian Library
The idea of Persia has long fascinated Western minds. From the Middle Ages on, knowledge of Persia gradually expanded as …
Happy Persian New Year – سال نو مبارک
Haft Sheen: The 7 S…, a set of objects all starting with the persian letter Sheen People …
Lost in Translation
Mrs. F., my Dear, We recently discussed the issue of translating poetry from one language to another. You told me …
Forough Farrokhzad: A poetic voice that fell silent too soon
Recently I was invited by a friend in Munich to a reading of poetry by an Iranian writer, who died …
Forough Farrokhzad: A poetic voice that fell silent too soon
Recently I was invited by a friend in Munich to a reading of poetry by an Iranian writer, who died …
Omar Khayyam — brought into music by Maryam Akhondy
On the occasion of the finissage of the “Servus and Salam – an insight to Iran” exhibition here in Munich, …
Shab Yalda
Mrs. F., my Dear, Did you recognized that daylight lasted for 2 minutes longer today than it did yesterday …
Verse aus dem EVIN Gefängniss
Bahareh Hedayat has been sentenced again to 7 years in the notorious Evin prison. The following letter she send to …
