Last week at a media preview for "Shahnama: 1000 Years of the Persian Book of Kings," the Sackler Gallery's new exhibit, chief curator Massumeh Farhad pulled back the black gallery doors to allow a ...

Originally published in three volumes: Washington, DC : Mage Publishers, c2000-2005, under the titles: Fathers and Sons; Sunset of Empire ; and, The Lion and the Throne. The first kings -- The ...

Iranians are in the middle of a 13-day celebration of the Persian New Year, Nowruz. It's an ancient tradition that dates back before the Arab conquest of the Persian Empire in the 7th century. Just in ...

A new exhibition at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., offers a glimpse into the rich literary tradition of the Persian language. Titled "A Thousand Years of The Persian Book," the exhibit ...

Composed more than a thousand years ago, this national epic of Persia tells the story of Iran from the first ""lord of the world,"" Kayumars, through the seventh-century Arab/Islamic conquest of the ...

THRONGING with heroes and villains, demons and dragons and deeds of derring-do, the “Shahnameh” is a literary epic. Tens of thousands of verses of poetry merge together myth, legend and history, ...

Imagine a 948-page book so large that, open, it stretches 3 feet across. Imagine further that as you read of heroism and intrigue, romance and war, bloody battles and festive celebrations, every so ...