(MENAFN- Kashmir Observer) Srinagar: Persian Scholars on Wednesday staged a protest demonstration at Press enclave Srinagar, and demanded its revival and introduction of Persian language in all ...

The Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies hosted a culture and language day on Tuesday to commemorate the introduction of a newPersian studies concentration this fall that will be housed ...

Persian is spoken today primarily in Iran, but was historically a more widely understood language in an area ranging from the Middle East to India. Significant populations of speakers in other Persian ...

BBC World Service announces today that its Persian language television channel will launch on Wednesday 14 January 2009. BBC Persian TV will form part of the BBC's multimedia news and information ...

A detail from the 17th century Kitāb-i Sangīt, or 'Book of Music', by Shaikh ‘Abd al-Karim dedicated to Muhammad ‘Adil Shah. | In public domain, via British Library The first early modern text to ...

What to call the Persian language in Afghanistan? It's a question Afghans have grappled with and sparred over for decades. The long-simmering dispute was reignited after the BBC changed the name of ...