Haleh Liza Gafori is an Iranian American translator, poet, performance artist, and composer born in New York City. Her book ...

Best known for the classic Persian poem “Masnavi,” Rumi grew up the son of a preacher in Afghanistan and later moved to Samarkand before settling in Iran. Rumi cited Persian poets Attar and ...

Art can help us make sense of the world, and these moving poems about life offer a better understanding of the ups and downs ...

The passing of eight centuries has done little to dim humanity’s appetite for Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, the Sufi mystic born in 1207 who in 2014 was named America’s best-selling poet.

One of the most famous love poems for her was ... What poetry readers tend to love most about this work is Rumi’s affinity for storytelling. Gorgeous imagery and lyrical words abound, yes ...

As opera seeks to redefine itself, the idea of music-drama as meditation is a potentially powerful one. Music can sustain ...

He wrote his poetry in Persian and is widely read ... It was on this journey that Rumi encountered the famous mystic Persian poet, Attar. When Attar saw Rumi walking behind his father he is ...

The famous Sufi poet Rumi (13th century) also plays with the idea of human beings as musical instruments. He opens his work the Mathnawi, perhaps one of his most famous poems, with the lines, “Listen ...

One of the highlights of Beyoncé's massive "Renaissance" tour was having her daughter, Blue Ivy, join her on stage as a ...

Are there three children who've collectively logged more private air travel than Blue Ivy Carter, Rumi Carter and Sir ... to pass onto my child. And the best way of doing that is not by ...

Challenging work inspired by the poems of Sufi mystic Rumi Premiered last month at the Copenhagen Opera Festival, Mahogany Opera’s staging of this new opera from Rolf Hind, which sets poems by ...

Beyoncé spent some quality family time at the wedding of her former personal assistant over the weekend. The “Single Ladies” ...