Category: Cultural

Visiting the tomb of Hafez, also known as Hafezieh, is on top of everyone’s list when they are in Shiraz. This world-famous poet is respected by Iranians and literature enthusiasts around the world. Goethe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, the German philosopher Fredrick Engels and more famous figures have shown their respect and impression of Hafez. After [...]

Although indelibly illustrious, the millennia-long tale of Iran is, by and large, a sad one. Ravaged by invaders who threatened to put paid to its rich and ancient cultural heritage, razed to the ground by bloodthirsty warlords, perennially betrayed by its own children, and far too often the victim of foreign ploys, the ‘land of the noble’ has been to hell and back again, and then some

The 19th Century was one of the darkest periods in Iran’s recent history. Ruled by sybaritic autocrats who sold Iran for a pittance to foreigners, and plagued by poverty, disease, ignorance, and an overall state of decrepitude and decay, Iran wasn’t exactly the place to be.