In the Middle Ages, the Persian-speaking world (often termed Greater Iran) was divided into two distinct regions, Persian Iraq in the west and Greater Khorasan in the east. Greater Khorasan was a nebulous region, more often than not defined in th...
I never thought that a sweaty September day in College Park would bring me back to a very different place, to the May sunlight streaming down upon the beaches of the south of France. I was in Cannes on the last day...
A print by Edmund Sullivan from the first edition of FitzGerald’s translation
My vintage book collection began a few years ago when my grandfather gave me a book that had belonged to his mother, an edition of Edward FitzGerald’s The Rubaiyat of O...
When it comes to judging film, or any art form, what metrics do we use? By what criteria can we say one film was good, or successful, or any other positive adjective, and another film was not? Without delving too deeply into philosophical quandar...
