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On The Trail of a Tale - Part Four: How I Came to Play a Very Small Role in Saadi’s Travels Through the World

What persuaded me to accept ISIC’s commission, however, was thinking about the generations of Iranian Americans, like my son, who did not read Persian. They deserved, I thought, access to a version of that heritage that would “sing” in their dominant tongue the way the original “sang” in Persian.
Richard Jeffrey Newman

by Richard Jeffrey Newman

On The Trail of a Tale - Part Four: How I Came to Play a Very Small Role in Saadi’s Travels Through the World
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