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Title & Author Text       Translation by Recording by Prepared by Level Posted Notes
The Fairies
by
Ahmad Shamlu
Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

 

M.R. Ghanoonparvar
&
Diane Wilcox
M.R. Ghanoonparvar
&
Diane Wilcox
M.R. Ghanoonparvar Med 23 Feb 2005 Special: Parallel Text in Literary & Colloquial Styles
A Few Quatrains of `Omar Khayyām 1, 2, (NEW!) 3, (NEW!) 4 (NEW!)   Hossein Samei,
Emory Univ;
Farhad Arbab,
Leiden University
Barney Rickenbacker;

Farhad Arbab,
Leiden University
Med 6 April 2005; 4 Oct 2010  
Earth of Mosallā chronogram TEXT M.R. Ghanoonparvar M.R. Ghanoonparvar   Easy 16 April 2005 Abjad chart
In This Dead End by
Ahmad Shamlu
TEXT Leonardo P. Alishan Sung by `Aref

Read by M.R. Ghanoonparvar

  Med 5 May 2005  
I Rise Up
by
Hāfez
TEXT Gertrude Bell Hossein Samei,
Emory Univ
  Med 25 Jun 2005 Info on Ramal meter
Dibāche to Golestān
by
Sa`di
TEXT Unknown, 19th Century Manoucher Kasheff, Columbia Univ   Hard 3 Sept 2005 Dedicated to memory of Firoozeh Khazrai
When you hear
by
Hāfez
TEXT Reza Saberi Hossein Samei,
Emory Univ
  Med 20 Jan 2006 Reproduced  with the kind permission of Univ Press
I saw the blue-green field of heaven
by Hāfez 
TEXT Losensky, Paul Hossein Samei,
Emory Univ
  Med 20 Jan 2006 Welcoming Fighani

Used with permission

In the Tar of Night  by Sohrāb Sepehri TEXT Farhad Arbab Farhad Arbab,
Leiden University
Farhad Arbab,
Leiden University
Easy 4 Jun 2006  
Another Birth by Forugh Farrokhzād TEXT   Read by Forugh Farrokhzād   Hard 17 July 2006  
The story of the encounter between a grammarian and a boatman by Jalāl al-Din Rumi TEXT Jawid Mojaddedi Persian:

Koorosh Angali

English: Jawid, Mojaddedi, Rutgers Univ

  Med 17 Aug 2006 The English version comes from this new translation
Bani Ādam by Sa`di TEXT   Original melody, composition & performance by Fared Shafinury    Med  17 Nov 2006 Produced by Justin Ballesteros
An Oasis in Moment  by Sohrāb Sepehri TEXT Farhad Arbab Farhad Arbab,
Leiden University
Farhad Arbab,
Leiden University
Med 30 Dec 2006  
A Call for a Beginning
by Sohrāb Sepehri
TEXT Farhad Arbab Farhad Arbab,
Leiden University
Farhad Arbab,
Leiden University
Med 18 Aug 2007  
Water
by Sohrāb Sepehri
TEXT Farhad Arbab Farhad Arbab,
Leiden University
Farhad Arbab,
Leiden University
Easy 18 Aug 2007  
Saqinameh by `Emrāni TEXT Nahid Pirnazar Nahid Pirnazar,
UCLA
Nahid Pirnazar,
UCLA
Med 22 Aug 2007 Persian transliteration by Prof. Amnon Netzer, Hebrew University
Angāsi by Nima Yushij TEXT Farhad Arbab Farhad Arbab,
Leiden University
Farhad Arbab,
Leiden University
Easy 20 Mar 2008  
Unsaid by Nāder Nāderpour TEXT   Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak
U of Maryland
  Easy 27 Mar 2008 Recorded Feb, 2000, U of Wash
Death of Nāzli by Ahmad Shāmlu TEXT   Behrad Aghaei, Univ of Michigan   Med 27 Mar 2008  
The Alley by Fereydoon Moshiri TEXT   Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak
U of Maryland
  Med 27 Mar 2008 Recorded in 2000, U of Wash
Sound of the Water's Footsteps
by Sohrāb Sepehri
TEXT Farhad Arbab Farhad Arbab,
Leiden University
  Farhad Arbab,
Leiden University
Med 28 Mar 2008  
Paradise by Sāeb Tabrizi TEXT Farhad Arbab Farhad Arbab,
Leiden University
Farhad Arbab,
Leiden University
Med 14 April 2008 Assistance by Paul Losensky, Indiana Univ
Rostam & Esfandiār, by Ferdawsi TEXT Warner vol. v, pt. 3, pp 167-256 Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak
U of Maryland
Thanks to RIRA; PHI; Razmnāmah; Hard 21 April 2009 Recorded in 2000, U of Wash
Drunk & Sober by Parvin E`tesāmi TEXT Farhad Arbab Farhad Arbab Farhad Arbab, Leiden  University, Gernot Windfuhr, U of Michigan; A. Shahsavari
U of Texas
Easy 3 Aug 2009 Handwriting sar-e mashq by Ilia Faghfouri
Momento of the Cypress-Blood by Houshang Ebtehāj TEXT Franklin Lewis, Univ of Chicago Hossein Samei,
Emory Univ
Exercises by Maryam Amiri, Tehran; Saber Soleimani, Tehran; Behnam Esfahbod, Tehran, Behrad Aghaei, U of Michigan, Nicholas Heer, U of Washington Easy 13 Sept 2009 Handwriting sar-e mashq by Ilia Faghfouri
Morgh-e Sahar by Bahār TEXT Farhad Arbab Salar Aghili and Gisu Shakeri   Med 14 Dec 2009  
My beloved by Forugh Farrokhzād TEXT   Anousha Shahsavari
U of Texas, Austin
Farhad Arbab,
Leiden U, Sima Daad, U of Washington
Med 8 Feb 2010  
Palace of Madāen by Khāqāni TEXT Farhad Arbab Farhad Arbab Farhad Arbab, Leiden  University, Hard 28 Sept 2010  
The Book of War
Jangnāme by Hāmed Shāh Abbāsi
TEXT   Arif Naushahi Arif Naushahi

 

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