Who could this be? The light dawned: my 36th Doktorgroßvater was the Persian poet Omar Khayyam (c. 1048–1131), famed in the West as the author of the Rubaiyat, thanks to Edward FitzGerald’s ...

Omar Khayyam was a famous astronomer ... As a poet he wrote the Rubaiyat that had a great influence on writers like Edward Fitzgerald who translated them into English. Other writers to be ...

In 1902, when he was fourteen, T S Eliot came upon a copy of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam in Edward FitzGerald’s translation, first published anonymously in 1859. As Eliot later wrote, he experienced ...

This slightly rephrased poem from Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat stands in contrast to “How long can you stare at your wife?” – the now famous quote from the CEO of a top Indian conglomerate.

Weight by weight, apparently, Edward FitzGerald’s ‘rendering’ – as he put it – of the quatrains of Omar Khayyam into English has spawned more phrases in the language than the Bible and Shakespeare ...

The Anti-Corruption Commission, or ACC, has initiated a lawsuit against Shibli Rubaiyat Ul Islam, the former chairman of the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission or BSEC, on charges of ...

Detective police have detained Shibli Rubaiyat Ul Islam, the former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, in Dhaka’s Dhanmondi. He was apprehended on Tuesday evening and ...

Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) has called for the deportation Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), a U.S. citizen, to her birth country of Somalia. “America would be a better place if @IlhanMN were deported ...

Attacked by the right for noting that Musk and Trump don’t have monarchical powers, the member of Congress refers her critics to the nation’s founding document. Right-wing defenders of Elon ...

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., called out the hypocrisy of politicians attending inaugural festivities for President-elect Trump after having previously decried the Republican figure as a "threat to ...