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Iranian Persian (Persian: فارسی ایرانی, romanized: Fârsi-ye Irâni), [2] [3] Western Persian [4] or Western Farsi, [5] natively simply known as Persian (Persian: فارسی, romanized: Fârsi), refers to the varieties of the Persian language spoken in Iran and by others in neighboring countries, as well as by Iranian communities throughout the world.
Far Western University is a university in Nepal, located in Mahendranagar, Kanchanpur. [1] [2] ...
Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, founding director of Center for Persian Studies, University of Maryland [21] Homayoon Kazerooni, professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, [22] co-founder and Chief Scientist of Berkeley Bionics, [23] inventor of the HULC; Shaygan Kheradpir, chief operating officer, Barclays
It was Abbas Mirza who first dispatched Iranian students to Europe for a western education. [5]The history of the establishment of western style academic universities in Iran (Persia) dates back to 1851 with the establishment of Darolfonoon – which was founded as a result of the efforts of the royal vizier Mirza Taghi Khan Amir Kabir, aimed at training and teaching Iranian experts in many ...
Fatemeh Keshavarz, scholar of Rumi and Farsi language & poetry, and poet in Persian and English; Director & Chair of Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland. Previously, was a professor of Persian Language and Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis
Another prominent example of close academic and cultural ties between Iran and the United States was the "Aria Mehr University of Technology" in Tehran (now Sharif University of Technology), which was modeled directly on MIT in the United States. [19] Seyyed Hossein Nasr, the president of "Aria Mehr University of Technology", was an MIT graduate.
Many Iranian university students were sent to and supported in foreign, especially Western, countries and the Indian subcontinent. Between 1967 and 1977, the number of universities increased in number from 7 to 22, the number of institutions of advanced learning rose from 47 to 200, and the number of students in higher education soared from ...
Kontovas, Nicholas. "Contact and the diversity of noun-noun subordination strategies among Western Iranic languages." Hanaway Jr, William L. "Gernot L. Windfuhr. Persian and West Iranic: History and State of Research: Part One: Persian Grammar. The Hague: Mouton, 1979.[Trends in Linguistics: State-of-the-Art Reports, No. 12." Review of Middle ...