Financial Tribune- The recently published book by Cheshmeh Publication Sinbad Through the Journey of Death, is the first volume of interviews of late Persian poet, journalist and translator Ahmad Shamlou. It includes 44 interviews, almost all of them have Shamlou as the interviewee. Journalist and literary critic Ali Asghar Zarabi, poet and journalist ...

IRNA- A selection of Ahmad Shamlous poems, translated to Arabic by Maryam Heydari and edited by the Egyptian Public Authority for Culture Houses, has been published in the North African country. According to a report by IRNA, Egypts Al-Rai wrote that this collection of poems, called Hadiqat al-Maraya [The Garden of Mirrors], acquaints the reader ...

Adolescence is a universally grave hour. Mine was made graver by a revolution in 1979 in my beloved birth country of Iran. The mutiny I felt within had an echo in the world without. On the streets, martial law was in effect. Tehran was burning, bleeding. A popular American belief holds that the act of writing can somehow save the writer. But having ...