The Lahore Arts Council (Alhamra) hosted a dignified and intellectually engaging scholarly session to commemorate the 752nd ...

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 ...

Rumi was born to native Persian-speaking parents on the Eastern shores of the then Persian Empire on September 30, 1207, in the city of Balkh which is now part of Afghanistan, and finally settled in ...

One of the great treasures of Persian literature is the 13th century Sufi poet and mystic Maulana Jallaludin Rumi. Described as ‘the sun of truth which has shone on everyone’, Rumi’s poetic search for ...

Celebrated author, playwright, and screenwriter Farrukh Dhondy’s latest book, Rumi, takes an insightful look into the life and works of Jalal-al-Din Rumi, one of the most widely read poets in the ...

As all the countries that call the work of Jalaluddin Rumi their own rise up against the idea of Leonardo Di Caprio playing the poet and scholar in a Hollywood epic, social media users in Afghanistan ...

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 ...