It's National Poetry Month, and for the fifth edition of Poetic License, we decided to celebrate short poems from poets across Canada. In these illustrated videos, you'll hear from emerging talent, ...

The petroglyph contains verses from a poem by the Persian poet Sheikh Muslih od-Din Sadi Shirazi, said Iranian archaeologist Abolhassan Atabaki. This poem was probably carved on this rock centuries ...

Iranians celebrate Sadi Day on the 1st Ordibehesht in their national calendar. The day marks the anniversary of the completion of the “Gulistan” or "The Rose Garden”, his most famous work. This ...

Born in 1934 in Basra, Iraq, Youssef has recently settled in London after a peripatetic adult existence. These poems drawn from his 30 books are organized by date and place of composition: Baghdad ...

Yusuf Saadi's debut poetry collection, Pluviophile, is a Canadian finalist for the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize. Pluviophile veers through various poetic visions and traditions in search of the sacred ...

Iran has been the land of literature for centuries. Saadi Shirazi is one of the Iranian poets with international fame. His poetry has become popular throughout the world. Being one of the most ...

BEIJING - Beijing's Niujie Mosque has many treasures: a five-century-old Koran, a gilded wooden plate engraved with an emperor' s order and foreign sheik tombs from hundreds of years ago. But the most ...