Persis Karim: Can you say a little about what finally made you leave Iran? Were you threatened with imprisonment? I know you left in 2009, but in the interview you did with Lyn Coffin, your translator, you were a bit vague. I wonder if you can elaborate a bit. Mohsen …
MÉXICO D.F (apro).- La vida de Mohsen Emadi condensa todas las contradicciones de Irán: Marx y el Islam; la sensualidad de los cantos orales y las rimas revolucionarias del monte, el nacionalismo y la oposición encarcelada. Huésped de la Casa Refugio Citlaltépetl, asociación civil que hospeda en México a …
May 3rd – May 8th 2013 seventeen poets and writers from the U.S., Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey, and Iran arrived in Konya, in central Turkey, to participate in The Same Gate conference, centered around the life and work of celebrated 13th century poet Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, a central poet …