Khosrow and Shirin is the second of five long narrative poems by Nezami and is one of the finest love stories in Persian literature. This story has been examined so far from different aspects and with different approaches. One of the approaches overlooked in the analysis of this story is the process of individuation from Carl Jung's point of view. Therefore the aim of the present paper is to ps...

pomegranate is an important iranian-native fruit, with many varieties cultivated. although the volume of data on the importance of pomegranates in human nutrition has increased tremendously in the last years, the physical properties of the pomegranate fruit during fruit maturity have not yet been studied in detail. thus, the present study aimed to evaluate changes in physical characteristics of...

To determine the potential habitat of two rangeland species of Salsola rigidaand Agropyron trichophorum in Qasr-e-Shirin, Iran, Geographic Information Systems(GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) techniques were used. At first, several maps (vegetationcover and land uses maps and thematic maps of various organizations) were collected orprepared. For digitizing geology, vegetation and conventional state...

Ali Shir Nava’i (d.1501) was a famous statesman, poet and linguist, political cultural identity in the Timurid capital, Herat at end of 15th century. The subject this research is first only illustrated copy Nava’i’s Khamseh, which produced Ottoman Royal Atelier. colophon on folio 309v copy, dating 937/1530-31, shows that calligrapher, bookbinder painter Khamseh as Pir Ahmed bin Iskender. This i...

Abstract This article examines contemporary Somali diasporic literature by proposing a comparative analysis of Nuruddin Farah’s Maps and selection texts written authors origin currently writing in Italian: Shirin Ramzanali Fazel, Cristina Ubah Ali Farah, Igiaba Scego. Drawing on diaspora studies, theories narrative space, world literature, this argues that places at its imaginative symbolic cor...

background: this study assessed the removal of organic material and nutrients from full-scale subsurface flow (ssf) constructed wetlands (cws) followed by anaerobic stabilization ponds under environmental conditions. methods: the effluents were distributed evenly in 12 reed beds. samples were taken twice monthly for a total of 6 months from several points in the wetland. biochemical oxygen dema...