The most arresting and surprising part of Iranian writer Jalal Al-e Ahmad’s Israel travelogue The Israeli Republic is his comparison … More
Tag: Persian
آل احمد، اورشلیم، و من
در کوچه و پس کوچههای اورشلیم دنبال جلال آل احمد میگردم. شاید برای بعضی خوانندگان، این جمله شگفتآور باشد. اورشلیم … More
No one’s matter
NO ONE’S MATTER a play by Saif Diaan Persian-Hebrew translation by Samuel Thrope. Directed by Li Lorian “When I … More
The painter of Baghan
We were six: me, my wife, our two children, the children’s uncle, and his wife, Mehri, who was seven months … More
A tantalising find from the Jews of medieval Afghanistan
In 1946, the French philologist André Dupont-Sommer published the first Jewish tombstone inscription from Firozkoh in Afghanistan. Dated between the … More
The Afghan geniza
The road between the Afghani cities of Ghazni and Bamiyan is fraught with danger
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