Iranian scholar Abdolhossein Farzad is currently compiling Andalusian love poems to translate them into Persian...in a collection entitled "Love Poems of the Arabs in Spain. [He says]: “Today, the world is suffering from a dearth of love and such poetry can lead the people to a pure and deep-rooted love...The Spanish people have highlighted it profoundly”.
>>>Short but sweet. Love and poetry are always news. When I was a student in Spanish Language and Lit, we studied such poems. And I also lived in Spain for a while. And when I saw my first Iranian film, thirty years later, the first thing that struck me was that Iran was so much like Spain. Is that not news? Why not? Rosie
