Persian | Persian
Oct.13.2012
Farsi, better known as Persian, was my first foreign language. I learned it out of necessity after moving to Iran to live with my in-laws. I made an awful hash of it; calling my sister-in-law "Grasshopper" instead of her name, both words sounding the same to me. Eventually, I learned the day-...
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Jul.10.2012
The Persian word pardes means "garden" or "paradise". Pardes were designed by rulers as places of leisure and relaxation and large areas were planted with trees and used to maintain wildlife for hunting preserves. The Greeks translated pardes incorrectly so we now use the word "park". The Old...
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Sep.16.2011
Kafka Brief and Sweet released in Persian
David Zane Mairowitz's volume "Kafka kurz und knapp" is rendered from original German to Persian by Nasser Ghiasi. This illustrated book recounts Franz Kafka's life and the conception of the works of this world-known writer in a...
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May.18.2010
On one of my recent trips to the Middle East, a friend and a business associate, Hesam, invited me over to his house for dinner. I eagerly accepted.
The dinner was plentiful, the host and the hostess extremely gracious, and as the tradition goes, some relatives, including Hesam's parents and his...
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