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A collection of poems by Kourosh Beigpour. The audiobook is published by H&S Media and is in the Persian language. Narrated by its poet. Music by Farzad Golpaygani.

Une route bordée de soie, de 12000 km de long, fait rêver depuis des siècles l'Orient et l'Occident. Une route qui traverse ici, la Chine, le Kirghizistan, l'Ouzbékistan, l'Afghanistan, l'Irak, la Turquie et la Grèce. Elle chemine aux sommets de montagnes ardues, de steppes de velours, de villes enchanteresses. Le vent murmure au voyageur des récits âpres et sauvages, où ces peuples d'Asie centrale vivent en symbiose et en lutte perpétuelle avec une nature aussi grandiose que cruelle.

Poetry by Ali Mousavi Garmaroudi.

Stillness in a Storm by Saied Ramezani is a unique collection of contemporary Persian poetry that follows classic Persian style and is translated into English. This short collection contains both the Persian and English versions of each poem, recited to background music provided by Smartsound. Both renditions of each poem are performed to the same music to provide a mirror reflection of the work in each language.

Dans cet ouvrage simple et universel, le grand écrivain libanais Khalil Gibran aborde les questions et les problèmes que pose la vie et y répond par la poésie.

The author's poetry answers questions about how life in the Middle East is viewed: What is it like to live through numerous wars? Why do Christians from the Middle East live in diaspora? How do those in the Middle East live in peace? What is it like to have been a Bedouin, and later forced to settle down?

Gibran Jalil Gibran (Yibran Jalil Yibran ibn Mija'il ibn Sa'd era su nombre completo en árabe) fue un poeta, pintor, novelista y ensayista libanés. Nace en la ciudad de Bisharri, al norte de Beirut, Líbano, el 6 de enero de 1883, de niño aprende de varias personas, entre ellas su abuelo materno, del conocimiento del arte y del saber universal, que fueron base para la literatura y la pintura. en 1895. Emigra a los Estados Unidos con su madre, Kamile Rahme (quefallece en 1903).

Gibrán Jalil Gibrán, el poeta árabe más conocido del siglo XX, nació en Becharre, Líbano, en 1883. Su primera obra literaria,Espíritus rebeldes, fue quemada en una plaza pública de Beirut por considerarse un libro peligroso y revolucionario. Gibrán fuedesterrado por el gobierno de su país y excomulgado por su iglesia.

This work of fiction covers the journey of Ahmad, a man fleeing Iraq during the rule of Saddam Hussein, to seek refuge in the United States. He is escaping because the Iraqi government has been torturing him for years thinking he is a CIA agent. Ironically, he faces an interesting ordeal in the hands of the United States Immigration.

With an arcing and emphatic beauty, Ghalib, the Indian Beloved by Khalid Hameed Shaida is a starry-eyed collection of 124 translated odes by Ghalib. Capturing the essence and pure song of one of the most loved romantic poets of India, Shaida's translation and interpretations also illustrate the deeply philosophical undertones of Ghalib's voice.

The poems in Faiz, a Wailing Nightingale establish Faiz as a great lyricist who embraced traditional motifs and subjects with an unrivaled passion and proclivity for verse that explores the natural and illusory qualities of love. Yet, as the title of the collection asserts, Faiz was a wailing nightingale-a tortured man who loved beauty, but found himself surrounded by the pain, sorrow, poverty, bloodshed, and tears of daily life in post-Colonial Pakistan.

The Forerunner is Gibran's second book in the English language built upon the mystical and spiritual thematic foundations that he had laid down with The Madman. "You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation."

Fresh from her Tony-Award winning stint in Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry Jam on Broadway and a subsequent 51-city tour, Suheir Hammad has written her first collection of poetry since Born Palestinian, Born Black, published when she was just 22 years old. ZaatarDiva is poetry about love, politics, and art, all coming out of Hammad's bag of zaatar.

Kahlil Gibran, author of The Prophet, is known throughout the world as the immortal Prophet of Lebanon and the Savant of his Age. A Treasury of Kahlil Gibran, which sold over a hundred thousand copies, led to a wide demand for a sequel volume. The demand has been met in A Second Treasury of Kahlil Gibran. In this magnificent volume Gibran's writing in his beloved mother tongue, Arabic, have been translated superbly into English by his great friend, Anthony Rizeallah Ferris.

Based on the journalist-playwright's original article in The New Yorker, Betrayed is the story of three young Iraqi translators who risk everything for America's promise of freedom while their country collapses around them.

The prolific writings of Kahlil Gibran, author of The Prophet, continue to inspire a devoted international following and have transformed modern Arabic literature. In this volume of early writings, Gibran’s simple yet lyrical style crosses from prose to poetry and yields insight into his dedication and inner vision of beauty, including the tale of a strange hermit in “The Tempest”, the discovery of love lost to war in “The Mermaids”, and the long voyage of sea and soul in the prose poem “Between Night and Morn”.

The translator Shaida does something altogether breathtaking in the expansive and lovely poems found in Khusro, the Indian Orpheus: A Hundred Odes, a collection of 100 translated poems by Khusro, an Indian musician, scholar, and poet of Persian descent. Fans of Rumi, the translations of Coleman Barks in particular, and Persian poets in general will delight in this current and timeless effort.

Les proverbes sont une véritable sagesse populaire. Ils sont le fruit de centaines d'années d'histoires, de légendes, de spiritualité d'un peuple. Transmis oralement pendant des siècles, leur vérité et leur simplicité nous parlent immédiatement. Ces proverbes visent à donner accès à un peuple, une culture populaire, dans un format accessible à tous. Un proverbe est plus qu'une phrase anodine, ce peut être un trait d'esprit, un résumé d'une pensée complexe, une maxime, une ouverture sur une réflexion plus profonde.

Khalil Gibran est un poète et artiste peintre libanais, Il a séjourné en Europe et passé la majeure partie de sa vie aux États-Unis. Publié en 1923 et composé de vingt-six textes poétiques, son recueil "Le Prophète" est devenu particulièrement populaire pendant les années 1960 dans le courant de la contre-culture et les mouvements New Age.

Queste 100 proverbi mirano a fornire l'accesso a un'opera o a una vita eccezionale, attraverso una selezione dei pensieri più eclatanti, in un formato accessibile a tutti. Una citazione è più di un estratto di un'affermazione, può essere un colpo di mente, una sintesi di un pensiero complesso, una massima, un'apertura a una riflessione più profonda. Si dice che certe frasi possono cambiare la vita. Altri ragioneranno dentro di voi per un tempo infinito, facendo eco a una personale ricerca intellettuale o spirituale.