Radio Rumi Program 66: The Lands and Seas Are Vast, and the People Numerous
In this summer special episode, I discuss the worldly awareness of medieval Persian poets and thinkers, emphasizing their attention to cultu...
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Radio Rumi is hosted by Dr. Fatemeh Keshavarz at the University of Maryland. Keshavarz is author of award winning books including Reading Mystical Lyric: the Case of Jalal al-Din Rumi (USC P...
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Radio Rumi Program 65: The Blessed Madness That Helps You Find the Moon!
This episode focuses on the complexity of the concept of madness in Rumi's poetry. It explores our poet's approach to madness as a tool that...
Radio Rumi Program 64: Dance Them Out of Your Life!
This program is dedicated to the significance of dancing in human life. I start with Hafiz of Shiraz, then move on to Sa'di's approach to th...
Radio Rumi Program 63: The Winter Is Gone, Did You Hear?
On the occasion of the arrival of spring, millions of people across the globe are celebrating "Nowruz." In this program, I explore the liter...
Radio Rumi Program 62: I Saw Angels Knocking on the Door of the Wine-House
In this program, I focus on wine and wine-house in the poetry of Hafiz of Shiraz. In the journey that we take from Konya to Shiraz, instead...
Radio Rumi Program 61: Persons-in-Community, Not Egos-in-Isolation
In this episode, I focus on the ways in which one of my favorite philosophers and a few life-companion poets (including Rumi) discuss an imp...
Radio Rumi Program 60: The Harmonious Interrelation That Is Life
I start this program with a quote from a modern Western philosopher about the interconnection of all life everywhere. Comparing his view wit...
Radio Rumi Program 59: Before You, The Sun Is But a Sundown!
A large part of the world has just celebrated Christmas. This program looks into the poetic presence of Jesus in classical Persian poetry an...
Radio Rumi Program 58: Like all Nights, Yaldas Come to an End
In this episode, we take another poetic journey to Shiraz to spend Yalda with the master poet, Saʿdi. He speaks of the symbolic significance...
Radio Rumi Program 57: Dancing Around a Rainbow
This episode is dedicated to the Iranian children suffering as the violent response to the uprisings causes them harm. I focus on children a...
Radio Rumi Program 56: The Glow of the Fire that is Life
I start this episode by describing the concept of the Self - "Khod" in Persian - as an ongoing inner process. I then explore Rumi's words on...
Radio Rumi Program 55: They Clothe Themselves with the Rays of the Sun
This episode is dedicated to the concept of healing, as Rumi speaks about. In his view, healing is not a thing which happens to us but somet...
Radio Rumi Program 54: The Autumn Leaves Know I Am Waiting for You
In this episode, I talk about seasonal change and the autumn, which we usually see as a sign that the summer has ended. For Rumi, the pale l...
Radio Rumi Program 53: Let Grapes Speak about Sweetness
In this program I continue to explore what poetry was to Rumi. Sometimes it was the music to his happy moments, and comfort during sadness....
Radio Rumi Program 52: From Konya to Shiraz
In this program, I start by underlining Rumi's emphasis on the concept of sokhan ('human speech'). For our poet, human beings are made up of...
Radio Rumi Program 51: There are Thieves in Town (1)
In this first of a two-part program, I'll take you on the cosmic journey that Rumi plans for his readers. "There are thieves in town," he te...
Radio Rumi Program 50: The Everlasting is Born Tonight!
In this program I explore the concept of "birth" in Rumi's lyric poetry as it applies to the entire cosmos. The convergence of the Winter So...
Radio Rumi Program 49: Dancing All The Way to the Garden
In this program I speak of Rumi’s vision on giving thanks. Describing “patience” and “gratitude” as the twin roads to contentment, Rumi poin...
Radio Rumi Program 48: The City of Light
In this episode we stroll through one of Rumi's ghazals with an eye on discovering the vibrancy and glow of this mystical metropolis. In the...
Radio Rumi Program 47: Like Strings on a Harp
We have all experienced varying levels of isolation in our efforts to slow down a pandemic. In this program I focus on the ways in which Rum...