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Tag: Persian

What Israelis didn’t see … and Al-e Ahmad did

The most arresting and surprising part of Iranian writer Jalal Al-e Ahmad’s Israel travelogue The Israeli Republic is his comparison … More

israel, Persian, Religion, Translation

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

Persian, Translation, Travel

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

History, Persian, Translation

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

Literature, Persian, Translation

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

Afghanistan, History, Iran, Judaism, Persian, Religion

The Afghan geniza

The road between the Afghani cities of Ghazni and Bamiyan is fraught with danger

Iran, Jews, Literature, Persian
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