بسیاری از ما ایرانیان از کودکی با داستانهای “لیلی و مجنون”، “یوسف و زلیخا” و حتی “رومئو ژولیت” آشنا بوده ایم، اما با برخی از

I have been watching Sherlock Holmes again. I have lost counts of how many times I have seen them from the oldest black and white

به جهان خرم از آنم که همه خرم از اوست      عاشقم بر همه عالم که همه عالم از اوست Sa’di Some years ago, when I

I visited a “home” as we call it in Canada. That is a place where many senior citizens are taken care of. There were people

بیستم اردیبهشت ماه سال روز تولد ذبیح الله صفا پژوهشگر و مورخ ادبی برجسته ایرانی است. از صفا نزدیک به پنجاه اثر به فارسی و

I was listening to a program on CBC about high school students volunteering. I was taken aback by one of the panelists repeating, “…students… during

I have been archiving old letters. At first, I thought I would finish in an hour or so. They have been spread around on the

مجتبی مینوی از پژوهشگران برجسته ایرانی در زمینه های فرهنگ، ادبیات و تاریخ ایران و از پیشگامان مطالعات ادبیات تطبیقی فارسی و عربی در ایران

عباس اقبال آشتیانی محقق، مصحح، نویسنده، مترجم و از پیشگامان شیوه آموزش نو در ایران و در زمره افرادی است که سهمی بزرگ در تحول

Winning or losing by a fraction of a second: how meaningful is this ranking of the first, second, and third place in the Olympics Games?

I have been listening to the news for a long time and thinking, something doesn’t feel quite right, but what? I mean beyond what is

If I were to single out one point that stood out in my interactions with Canadians and Iranians (in and out of Iran), I would

بر چهره گل نسیم نوروز خوش است           بر سحن چمن روی دل افروز خوش است از دی که گذشت هر چه گویی خوش نیست             وز

Some people say homeland is where you were born, it is merely the name of a geographical region on a piece of paper, that it

When you come to Canada, or it used to be that when you came to Canada, the immigration office would hand you a book that

I was listening to a radio program where people talked about their experiences of coming to Canada. They spoke of challenges and struggles in achieving

Being in Cuba is like being somewhere at the boundary of heaven and earth. The endless turquoise ocean, dreamlike sun and breeze, and mesmerizing landscape

بیستم آذر ماه سالروز تولد سید محمد رضا میرزاده عشقی شاعر، نویسنده و روزنامه نگار ایرانی بود .  آثار وی شامل چند هزار بیت شعر،

“I have 386 friends.” Someone told me. How do you keep count? I wondered. How many letters/emails does she have to write? How many birthdays,

Thanks to a few blizzards that got me snowed in, I watched quite a few movies. One was about corruption of the police force in

مولانا نظام الدین عبید الله زاکانی شاعرو بزرگ ترین لطیفه پرداز ادبیات ایرانی است. از آثار او می توان از “کلیات عبید زاکانی”، “مثنوی عشاقنامه”،

نیما کیان بهترین دلیل است برای پدر و مادرها که فرزندانشان را تشویق کنند که به هنر روی بیاورند و آموزش و کار در عرصه

I attended a Rock/Pop concert for the first time in my life. The band was Mother Mother who had recently won an award from CBC3

I heard a lot about an Iranian film, About Elly, and I decided to watch it. This is the general plot as far as I

I have been watching human genius radiating from the screen: Peter O’Toole is the man. I feel I have discovered him, I guess in the