respect and reverence for water and trees are institutionalised in many ancient civilisations due to socio-cultural traditions, values and beliefs. in iranian societies, respect for trees and water, separately and in composite form as gardens, is a well-known cultural value both before and after islam. therefore, the first part of this paper explains the value and importance of plants and garde...

persian garden design is one of the main elements in the architecture and landscaping in iran and the whole lands influenced by the iranian culture. this phenomenon has always been present in iranians' life and they have had a close connection to this ancient tradition. hence, it can be said that persian garden design is one of the most crucial features in shaping landscape, in particular,...

this paper will concentrate on the result of a research based on comparative study between two persian gardens in different micro climates in arid regions. sustainability could be observed in many aspects and elements of traditional iranian architecture and landscape architecture, and this method of design has used to solve many problems for many centuries. gardens of iran have had special role...

this study aims at investigating voices in the persian translation of katherine mansfield's the garden party. in so doing, after a stylistic analysis of the voices in the original is done, it is argued by the authors that the polyphonous nature of the story is to a great extent due to the deployment of various sociolects in the story as well as the choice of free indirect discourse (fid) as the...