"The Shahnameh created a formidable, unparalleled army – an army of words – that vanquished those who sought to fragment and destabilize Iran. No force could withstand this legion of countless ...

The fifth exhibition in the “Art & War” series, titled “Iranian Epic Painting: From the Shahnameh to Ashura,” is underway at ...

Shahnameh (Book of Kings) is set to be performed at The Living Earth Show in March 2026. This production, part of the Roar Shack Live season, will explore themes and narratives from the classic ...

Before the Islamic Revolution dimmed the Iranian literary imagination in 1979, and before an expanding Islam swept Iran into its Arab empire in the seventh century, there existed the rich and colorful ...

Literary experts place the Shahnameh in the same category as other world epics such as the Iliad and Odyssey, which are attributed to Homer. Theater experts believe that ancient Iranian myths and ...

“I examined and analyzed different versions of Shahnameh from all over the world for more than 30 years and the result of my efforts is a new collection in six volumes,” said Joneydi, founder of the ...

A Delhi exhibition, "Shared Epic Worlds," explores cultural ties between India and Iran through the Mahabharata and Shahnameh ...

Long before HBO's wildly popular Game of Thrones was created, Iranians turned to the national literary epic 'Shahnameh" (The Book of Kings) for intriguing tales of knights, nobility and mystical ...

The Shahnameh, a 1,000-year old Persian epic, is a cultural mainstay in Iran. Iranian filmmaker Hamid Rahmanian recently made a contemporary, illustrated version. Each page is composed of thousands of ...