The letter inviting me to represent the field of poetry therapy by submitting an article for a “Special Issue on the State of the Arts” was broad enough to intrigue me and challenging enough to help me decide on a positive reply. And as I began to formulate ideas, discuss points of view with many individuals’ and gather notes, it soon became evident that I had undertaken a gigantic task that no...

Abdul Rauf Benewah is one of the contemporary writers and poets Pashto literature language. Also, he known as five stars literature. Besides poetry, wrote a lot essays dramas, most them on social historical which are written by Pashto, Persian Arabic languages. contributed numerous collections in prose, poetry dramas. Preshans Afkar [Troubled mind] his poetic collection has good poems. was tend...

Falling and being in love is a cross-cultural universal. The poet Khwaja Šams ud-Din Muhammad Hafez-e Širazi, or simply Hafez (14 th century D.C.), an important influence for both Persian and European culture, is noted for his love poetry. The first aim of the present study was to check to what extent items of a current questionnaire of love match themes of love found in Hafez‘ poetry. Then, we...

We used computational social network mapping in combination with human and automated content analysis to analyze the Iranian blogo-sphere. In contrast to the conventional wisdom that Iranian bloggers are mainly young democrats critical of the regime, we found a wide range of opinions representing religious conservative points of view as well as secular and reform-minded ones, and topics ranging...

BACKGROUND Poetry plays an age-old role in the art of healing. Although medicine today seems distant from the world of poetic expression, there are surprising commonalities between the two. OBJECTIVES In this essay we reflect on three aspects of healing that are fostered by poetry. OBSERVATIONS Practicing medicine with too many facts and not enough poetry leads to dissatisfaction, disappoin...

Conveying scientific content with accuracy and fluency takes practice and requires deep understanding of the concepts being conveyed. This depth of knowledge comes from internalizing information and constructing it into a form that is unique and coherent to the individual. Often in science classrooms there is little or no opportunity for students to practice this type of thinking, activities th...

The story of Husrev and Shirin, which was first put into poetry in Firdevsi's Shahname, later written by many poets. It is undoubtedly NizamiGanjavi who brought the Şirin to real fame Persian literature. Nizami's u Shirin Masnavi inspired Turkish poets came after him. Each poet has immortalized this according his own imagination. In literature, have produced original works changing their tradit...

Mr. İbrahim Sabri is a poet who was born in period when the Ottoman Empire nearing end and lived last periods of state. Born as son scholar father, he had good education. Both his education talent have been means success poetry. The exile life poet, faced harsh conditions time with family, continued Egypt, which started early youth. language style used by collected poems under name Egyptian Dân...