Thrilled to share that I'll be starting a PhD in Welsh this year, exploring the elegiac traditions in Welsh (marwnad), Persian & Urdu (مرثیہ / marsiya), with a focus on historic tragedies such as the battles of Karbala & Cilmeri at Bangor University. Grateful to have full funding

From Mirza Nazeer Baig's 'Ishq-e Firoz Laqa o Gulnar', which was an Urdu adaptation of Romeo and Juliet written by 'Janab Mister Shakespeare Sahab Marhoom'. Published in Agra in 1905.

We’ll be starting our reading circle this coming Tuesday with Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and a hikayat from Sa’adi's Gulistan. I still have a couple of spots available, which I’m happy to offer to readers outside Balochistan on a first-come, first-served basis.

Does anyone know the history and social culture of ethnic Kashmiris (Koshur) of Peshawar. My limited knowledge; 1. History: They migrated in mass during Sikh and Dogra (1819-1947) rules in Kashmir Valley. Major events/waves were 1833 famine, 1878 famine, and 1947 partition.

عربی علم، فارسی شکر هندی نمک، ترکی هنر 'Arabic is science, Persian is sweetness Hindi is salt, Turkish is art' (Arabi ilm, Farsi shakar Hindi namak, Turki hunar)

Guided by Khizr, Iskandar journeys through the kingdom of darkness, India, 1760.

Strange to think I had no Welsh at all two years ago Mae'n teimlo'n rhyfedd meddwl nad oedd gen i unrhyw Gymraeg o gwbl ddwy flynedd yn ôl https://t.co/0PGnURc0Qf

@HammadHRind آگے اسپ پہ خونی چادر اور خونی پرچم نکلے جیسے نکلا اپنا جنازہ، ایسے جنازے کم نکلے #جون_ایلیا

پاکستانی دہریوں کا بھی جواب نہیں۔ جب خدا پر یقین ہی نہیں تو اتنا کشٹ اٹھانے کی کیا ضرورت تھی؟ نہ خدا ہی مِلا نہ... بقول مولانا رومی ای قوم به حج رفته کجایید؟ کجایید؟ معشوق همین جاست، بیایید بیایید

gazar, which appear in some other varieties, but not the Iranian Persian هویج (havij).

Interesting that in Tajik Persian, the word for carrot is сабзӣ سبزی sabzī, which means vegetable in other varieties of Persian (and in many other langs, such as Urdu and Turkish (سبزه sebze), which borrowed it from Persian. The synonyms listed here include زردک zardak and گزر

The niyat of namāz is traditionally done in Persian among the Hui of China, e.g. the niyat for namāz-i pēšīn recorded on the page in the picture: هوی‌ها یعنی مسلمانان چینی‌زبان (نه «چینی») عادت دارند نیت نماز را به فارسی انجام دهند. عکس ذیل نیت نماز پیشین را نشان می‌دهد.

I'm starting a free online course for learners in Balochistan to explore literature and translation across Urdu, Persian, and English. Places limited to the first fifteen sign-ups. Message me here or email at hammadhrind@gmail.com to register

And although the "standard" Urdu word for "pear" is ناشپاتی nāšpāti, ناک nāk and even ناخ nāx are used in some regions, especially for a particular variety of "pear" (pear is گلابی golābī in Iranian Persian)

بادرنگ اسم، رستنی‌ای پالیزی با حاصل سبزرنگ و باریک دراز Cucumber, a garden plant with a fruit that is green, slender, and long Interestingly, the word بادرنگ, which is bādrang in Iranian (meaning citron), Dari and Indo-Persian), is pronounced as bādiring in Tajik Persian

varieties of Persian.

Asp اسپ in Balochi and Indo-Persian too. As someone who learnt Iranian Persian, coming across Tajik and Dari varieties at times feels like reading an older register of the language. Yet parts of it also strike me as oddly familiar because Urdu has mainly borrowed from the Eastern

Ydych chi erioed wedi bod eisiau dysgu Cynghanedd? Dyma'ch cyfle. Cofrestrwch yma. Am ddim ac ar agor i'r ugain cyfranogwr cyntaf. Addysgir gan Carwyn Eckley, enillydd y gadair. https://t.co/LCnSzAWVIv

Ichthys (from Greek ἰχθύς 'fish') or the sign of the fish is thought to be an early secret Christian symbol used by Christians to recognise other believers to avoid persecution. The letter I (iota) represents Ἰησοῦς (Jesus), χ (chi) represents Χρῑστός (anointed) and so on.

یہ سکے شہر میں جا کر چلانا میاں یہ دشت ہے وحشت نکالو - عمران سیفی

Ahsan Lakhnavi in 1908 on attempting to locate Mir's grave