A two-day conference on Persian manuscripts brought out the history and stories associated with the times and the people. Organised by the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, in ...
This story has to do with the desperate days of the Persian invasion of Greece. Pheidippides’ “Marathon Run” was much more than 26 miles (42km) But the version which has Pheidippides traveling more ...
In Pakistan, however, a prominent segment of the Ashrafiya-the social group considered to have high status in Islamic societies due to foreign lineage claims, such as Arab or Persian ...