Culture | Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, Part 5

In this episode, Leyla sits down with Ali Banisadr, the Tehran-born, New York–based painter whose work hangs in museum collections around the world. His exhibition Temple of the Mind at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum (on view through November 8, 2026) is the museum's first-ever artis ... Show More

In the fifth and final part of our discussion of Attar's Conference of the Birds, Leyla is joined by Omid Arabian of the YOUniversal Center for the poem's climax, as the thirty surviving birds finally reach the Simorgh and discover, through Attar's wordplay on see morgh and seemo ... Show More

In the fourth part of our discussion of Attar's Conference of the Birds, Leyla is joined by Omid Arabian of the YOUniversal Center as the birds set out in dread on a road no one has ever returned from — and after a lifetime of travel, only one in a thousand arrives.For the full l ... Show More

Part 5 of the Sisters Lesson from Surah Zukhruf. Delivered in Harare, Zimbabwe. 

Stories for kids podcast new episode. A traditional story from Persia about a smart young woman and a mean sultan. 

‎﷽ In this lesson, we define the sixth element of the Sayyida Nafīsa Seminary knowledge integration system - Process. We also define Islamic tradition and introduce our final historic inaugural phase - the Metafiqh academia. 

This lesson covers the names of various family members. 

The Prophet's adopted son Zaid bin Harithah, the birth of Imam Ali, and of Lady FatimaLecture notes available here.Subscribe to watch the lectures live and participate in the Q&A at the end of each class.Video recording of this lecture + Q&A available here. 

In this chapter of La Vérité éclate toujours we discover the identity of the armed men and women who burst into the hospital. Finally, everyone is reunited and all that’s left to do is to go and see Max and tell him about everything that has happened. Some interesting constructio ... Show More

In this final lesson of the Swedish Travel Diaries, we hear about how the family wrapped up their holiday on the Swedish west coast. We learn new vocabulary and new phrases, and have a look at the difference prepositions can make to the same verb.If you’d like to access our suppo ... Show More

Practise asking who someone is, introducing close family members, and talking about family size in Syrian Arabic. This beginner lesson uses useful everyday phrases and native-speaker audio. Complete course: https://linguaboost.com/learn-to-speak-syrian-arabic-beginnerPhrases in t ... Show More