I met Jaakko Hameen-Anttila, a professor of Arabic and Islamic studies in the University of Helsinki, on a cool April morning in Tehran a few days after his translation of the first half of Ferdowsi’s ...

Finnish-born poet and translator Anselm Hollo has died in Colorado, USA at the age of 78. He moved there in the 1960s after a stint working for the BBC in London. Hollo was a major figure in advancing ...