The Persian

know about the Persians and their writings comes from an outsider writing about them. A true historian, Herodotus, whose famous book “The Persian Wars” talks about Persians a lot. The Persian Achaemenid dynasty was founded in 539 BCE by King Cyrus the Great. Cyrus took his nomadic warriors and conquered most of Mesopotamia, including The Babylonians. His son, Darius the First, extended Persian control east to the Indus Valley, west to Egypt, and north to Anatolia. The Persian Empire was…

The Persian Empire, orginally know as Elam, throughout the years had a significant impact on the developement of of Mesopotamia. Although not actually located in the Mesopotamian Valley, but instead located on the other side of the mountains that borders Mesopotamia's northern boundries in what is now called Iran. Beginning as nomads in southwestern Iran and eventually evolving into a nation known as Elam, around 2500BC, whose history of development paralleled that of Sumer and Assyria. Over…

world. We have analyzed at least two interpretations of ancient Greece. I believe the Persian wars led Greece to new discoveries and advancements that influenced many countries. Hollister and De Blois and Van Der Spek wrote on the time between the Persian and Peloponnesian war, and I am convinced by Hollister because his main point did not fail my assumed interoperation in the outcome of the…

The Persian Sufi poet and philosopher, Rumi (1207-1273) once said, “Look past your thoughts so that you can drink the pure nectar of this moment.”This quote resonates with my connection to Rumi and his philosophy because I believe that by disconnecting ourselves from our egos, fear, and judgmental thoughts we can create an opportunity to reflect upon our simple being and by doing so reach personal growth and a higher level of compassion for both ourselves and our surroundings. It was through…

Trevor Marzbanian Arab Women Writers November 17, 2014 Final Paper “The Persian Rug” by Hanan al-Shaykh is a short story having to do with a child who’s parents are divorced. The narrator’s mother leaves her father in pursuit of the man she loved before her family forced her to marry the narrator’s father. The narrator battles with her feelings towards her mother. At first she seems to despise the woman for leaving her and her sister behind, but when she first sees her again she is overcome by…

Persian Girls is the biography of a writer who lived in a country where women have been facing discrimination and oppression since the past many decades. The memoir identifies the life of an ordinary Iranian girl who is not willing to conform to the stereotypical norms of the society and her family. The girl wanted to pursue her career in writing and achieve success. The literary work is an effort to highlight the problems faced by women in Muslim World that do not give them the freedom to live…

viewed as that which demonstrates its willingness to address important social and political issues, classical poetry is not (Karimi-Hakkak 3). Confirming Karimi-Hakkak’s attitude, Kamran Talattof pays attention to the ideas of the proponents of modern Persian literature who “[C]laimed to understand modernity and to know their readers’ tastes and expectations for social change” (Politics of Writings 23). Ahmad Shamlu—one of the important Iranian modernist poets—states that addressing the social…

the Greeks constantly suffered from the threat of being conquered by the Persian Empire. Although Persian power vastly exceeded, the Greeks unexpectedly triumphed. Similar to the tale of David versus Goliath, the Greeks defeated the Persians due to divine support and Greek unity. The threat of the Persian Empire expansion into Greece and the imminent possibility that they would lose their freedom and become slaves to the Persians, so horrified the Greeks that they united together and risked…

As a Fulbright fellow and masters’ student in social anthropology at Rutgers, I am actively conceptualizing the ethnographic project I wish to pursue at Harvard’s Ph.D. Program in Social Anthropology: the changing co-production of queer ethno-sexualities within the trans-cultural seascape extending across the Strait of Hormuz. As a queer man, atheist, and ethnic Baloch raised and based in a heteronormative Muslim Arab Gulf country (the UAE), coming from a family rooted in the Iranian Eastern…

defense of a nation. Most clad in bronze armour, armed with a spear and shield, others with a mere bow and arrow, and others still on horseback. These men were probably scared to death of the fleet on the horizon and the camp below them. The great Persian Empire has fielded 30,000 members of their unstoppable army, which has razed cities into ashes and forged an Empire so large 44% of the world’s population called the Shahanshah of Persia their King. But, against the odds, they won, and…