TEHRAN (Mehr News Agency) – “I am very happy to write in Persian,” Houshang Moradi Kermani a member of the Academy of the Persian Language and Literature said at the 4th International Assembly of ...

Craftsmen mounted the calligraphy in books, often inside gold borders and alongside elaborate illustrations. This folio dates to the 16th century. Freer/Sackler Gallery A Persian calligraphy that ...

On 17 December 2019, the Officer in Charge of the UNESCO Tehran Cluster Office, Mr Cvetan Cvetkovski, addressed the closing ceremony of the “First National Festival of Farsi Braille Writing: BrailleFa ...

The name Iran comes from the Indo-Iranian roots of the people who built early Persian civilisation.

Farsi, or Persian, was once counted among the great global sultans of language and culture. In a corner of Calcutta, the flame still glows. We chart the bygone glory of the tongue, and speak to some ...