EFL teachers’ role in English: Letting the silent majority voice their words by Babaii Esmat, Atai Mahmood Reza, Parsazadeh Abbas

“…To this end, identifying twelve highly Persian culture-specific words, the researchers devised an attitude questionnaire, which was administered to 351 EFL teachers to examine their right of cultural encoding (Kirkpatrick, 2014) as English users. …”
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A Mystic Analysis of Alda Merini’s Poetry by Mohammad Hussein Ramezankiaei, Mahtab Alimohammadi Malayeri

“…A great amount of Sufi poetry has been written in Persian and thus people of Persian culture have been fed of this kind of poem in various moments of prayer, sorrow and happiness. …”
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A Critical Analysis on the Concept of "Philhellen" on Parthian Coins by Esmaeil Sangari, Alireza Karbasi

“…Some consider the superiority of Greek culture to Persian culture in Parthian period, and it is considered as a kind of unconditional and cultural surrender to Greek culture. …”
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Teaching Persian to Non-Iranian Language Learners: Teachers' attitude towards the use of literary texts by Amirreza Vakilifard, Mohammad Taghi Rad

“…From the teachers' perspective, cultural and social environments in literary texts are unfamiliar to Persian language learners, and it is difficult to identify the cultural references and symbols used in Persian literary texts, but they can lead to the understanding of Persian's cultural norms and customs. The teachers prioritize storytelling for classroom use. …”
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Some features of the Islamic Culture of Khwarezm in the Golden Horde Era by Malikov A.

“…In this complex process, Khwarezm played the role of repeating the Arab-Persian cultural traditions with the participation of a certain local Turkic component. …”
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