Why Every American Should Take Their Next Vacation in Iran - PolicyMic


Hamid Dabashi, a professor of Iranian studies at Columbia University wrote, "If jazz is the cadence of American culture …Persian poetry is the pulse of Iranian culture, the rhyme and rhythm of its collective memory." On the streets of Tehran, beggars hold small colored envelopes that contain poems by Hafez — the classic medieval Persian poet — fanned out like a deck of cards.

Why Every American Should Take Their Next Vacation in Iran - PolicyMic Monday, January 13, 2014 @ 11:03pm

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