What to call the Persian language in Afghanistan? It's a question Afghans have grappled with and sparred over for decades. The long-simmering dispute was reignited after the BBC changed the name of ...
Is Tajik a dialect of Persian? Or a language in its own right? What differentiates it from varieties prevalent in Afghanistan and Iran? There is no easy answer to these questions because the very ...
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 ...
The Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies hosted a culture and language day on Tuesday to commemorate the introduction of a newPersian studies concentration this fall that will be housed ...
During the ceremony, the films "The Morning of The Execution," "Open Arms," "Parvin," and "Parviz Khan" were recognized for their efforts in preserving the Farsi language and maintaining correct ...
A detail from the 17th century Kitāb-i Sangīt, or 'Book of Music', by Shaikh ‘Abd al-Karim dedicated to Muhammad ‘Adil Shah. | In public domain, via British Library The first early modern text to ...
What to call the Persian language in Afghanistan? It's a question Afghans have grappled with and sparred over for decades. The long-simmering dispute was reignited after the BBC changed the name of ...
Introduction to Persian language and culture. By the end of the semester, students will have an overview of Persian grammar and will able to read and converse in Persian at a basic level. Class ...