Peter Brook Directs Play on the Tijani Sufi Tierno Bokar. "A Play on Tolerance and Reason: Nearly 85, Director Peter Brook Continues to Explore Spiritual Themes Within a Multicultural Context" By PAUL SHARMA, February 12, 2010, Wall Street Journal With his current work at London's Barbican Theatre, director Peter Brook returns to West Africa and examines a conflict in Mali, which, fueled by French colonialism and religious arguments, reached its peak in the 1940s.
Adapted by Marie-Hélène Estienne and Mr. Brook from the book "The Sage of Bandiagara" by African writer Amadou Hampaté Bâ, the play "11 and 12" tells how teacher Tierno Bokar is drawn steadily into a dispute over whether a certain prayer should be recited 11 or 12 times, which leads inexorably to hatred and massacres. Like Mr. Brook's 1985 theater production "Mahabharata," the work has undergone a number of revisions and has slowly evolved into its present form.
Le blog du Guide culturel de l'Iran de Patrick Ringgenberg. Falehafez/ Love Poems of Hafez. Persian alphabet, pronunciation and language. The Persian language has been written with a number of different scripts, including the Old Persian Cuneiform, Pahlavi, Aramaic, and Avestan, Cyrillic and Latin alphabets.
After the Islamic conquest of the Persian Sassanian Empire in 642 AD, Arabic became the language of government, culture and especially religion. Modern Persian appeared during the 9th century. It is written in a version of the Arabic script and is full of words of Arabic origin. There are also two methods of writing Persian with the Latin alphabet.