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On an almost predictable basis it seems, the carpet that is the Persian Pop landscape, is swept clean (if just into a lifted corner) by a new trend or tactic. Quality innovation in Persian Pop music is a rare thing indeed these days. There's little evidence of evolution. The continual obsessive-compulsive...
he European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the
official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some
room...
The most important underreported development in the Arab world is the increasing ability of Arabs to talk with one another. They did not used to be able to. Arabs in Casablanca speak a language in the Arabic family that is all but unintelligible to Arabs in Cairo, whose language is not understood...
In the Indo-European Family of Languages, the Indian branch evolved into Sanskrit, then into Middle Indian and from it derived the sub-branch that included Bengali and other tongues, while another sub-branch became Hindustani. The Iranian...