Interview | Persian Poetics on Growing Up in Detroit and Discovering the Love of Persian Poetry

Interview | Persian Poetics on Growing Up in Detroit and Discovering the Love of Persian Poetry

My name is Leyla Shams, host of the Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation podcast. Today’s interview is with Mohammad Ali, better known as Persian poetics on both Instagram and twitter. He went viral just a few months ago on a twitter thread where he talked about the bestselling poetry book in the English language, a translation of Rumi’s poems by Coleman Barks. In the thread, he went through a details look at Coleman Bark’s translations, and revealed that Barks doesn’t even know the Persian language- so how is he translating Rumi? Since the thread went viral, Mohammad Ali has picked up the pace of his own more accurate translations of Rumi and other Persian poetry. He has a lot of other wonderful poetry content that we’ll talk about in this interview. His own personal story is very interesting too, of how he was born in Detroit and grew up there as well, but became enamored by Iranian culture and eventually the language and of course, the poetry. Find Persian Poetics on Instagram and on Twitter.

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Culture | Attar's Conference of the Birds, Part 3

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9 Sep 23min

Culture | Attar's Conference of the Birds, Part 2

Culture | Attar's Conference of the Birds, Part 2

In the second part of our discussion of Attar's Conference of the Birds, Leyla is joined by Omid Arabian of the YOUniversal Center as the Hoopoe finally names the king the birds have been seeking — th...

2 Sep 18min

Culture | Attar's Conference of the Birds, Part 1

Culture | Attar's Conference of the Birds, Part 1

In this lesson, Leyla is joined by Omid Arabian of the YOUniversal Center for an overview of Attar's Conference of the Birds. Working through selected verses from across the poem, they trace the birds...

27 Aug 29min

Poetry | Simin Behbahani's dobāré meesāzamet vatan, Part 6

Poetry | Simin Behbahani's dobāré meesāzamet vatan, Part 6

In this final part of the discussion of Simin Behbahani's dobāré meesāzamat vatan, we go over the end of the poem in detail.

2 Aug 21min

Poetry | Simin Behbahani's dobāré meesāzamet vatan, Part 5

Poetry | Simin Behbahani's dobāré meesāzamet vatan, Part 5

In this fifth part of the discussion of Simin Behbahani's dobāré meesāzamat vatan, we go over the second-to-last part of the poem in detail.

29 Jul 17min

Interview | Sasha von Oldershausen on the Crown Prince of Lubbock, Texas

Interview | Sasha von Oldershausen on the Crown Prince of Lubbock, Texas

In this episode, Leyla sits down with Sasha von Oldershausen — an Iranian American journalist on the news and politics team at Texas Monthly, and soon to be the New York Times' first-ever Texas cultur...

29 Jul 1h 11min

Poetry | Simin Behbahani's dobāré meesāzamet vatan, Part 4

Poetry | Simin Behbahani's dobāré meesāzamet vatan, Part 4

In this fourth part of the discussion of Simin Behbahani's dobāré meesāzamat vatan, we go over the next six lines of the poem in detail.

20 Jul 19min

Interview | Yasmin Khan on Food, Culture & Compassion Across Borders

Interview | Yasmin Khan on Food, Culture & Compassion Across Borders

In this episode, Leyla sits down with Yasmin Khan — the acclaimed British-Iranian-Pakistani food writer, activist, and author of *The Saffron Tales*, *Zaitoun*, *Ripe Figs*, and her newest cookbook, *...

13 Jul 59min

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