At Rumi’s Kitchen, the Persian restaurant opening today near Mt. Vernon Square that’s already recognized as one of Atlanta’s top dining attractions, chef and owner Ali Mesghali measures success in ...

Rumi was born to native Persian-speaking parents on the Eastern shores of the then Persian Empire on September 30, 1207, in the city of Balkh which is now part of Afghanistan, and finally settled in ...

Iran-born chef Ali Mesghali was set to open Rumi’s Kitchen, an upscale Persian restaurant in D.C.’s Mount Vernon Square, at the beginning of March. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Deciding to push ...

India, May 31 -- Love has been one of the most explored themes in literature, philosophy, and spirituality throughout history ...

A planned film about 13th century Persian poet Rumi has some admirers of the Islamic theologian seeing red after the screenwriter and producer behind the movie said they'd like to cast Leonardo ...

Rumi was a 13th-century Muslim, but he's the most downloaded poet in America. Now a Dallas chorus - with an Iranian composer and a Syrian digital artist - has created a rapturous version of Rumi's ...

During the last decades of his life, the Persian poet Rumi was surrounded by news of terrorism, just as we are eight centuries later. Those were the days of Mongol invasions that swept past the ...

“Rumi has had a dramatic impact in the Western world. His influence on Western culture and literature began with German literature initiated mainly by the work of German poet and professor of Oriental ...

Dervishes pray during a "Seb-i Arus" ceremony at Abdi Ipekci Arena in Istanbul, Turkey, late Saturday, Dec. 15, 2007, to mark the 734th anniversary of the death of Sufi mystic poet Rumi or Mevlana.

Translated by Fatemeh Heidari, the 2016 book discusses how the universal teachings of the 13th-century Persian poet and mystic Molana Jalal ad-Din Rumi are just as relevant today as they were when he ...