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IRANIAN CULTURE AS DEPICTED IN PERSIAN ART AND POETRY, a Zoom course treating these PowerPoint Presentations and assigned reading as course texts: (1) Iranian Culture and Online Resources; (2) Twenty Symbols of Iran from Cyrus’s Tomb to the Milād Tower; (3) Ferdowsi’s Story of Sohrāb, the text and paintings from Shāh Tahmāsp to Hamid Rahmanian; (4) The Khayyāmic View in poems from Khayyām to T.S. Eliot, and illustrations; (5) Rumi and Persian Sufism; (6) Hāfez (c.1320-c.1390), texts and paintings by Hossein Zenderoudi; (7) Safavid and Qājār Art; (8) Symbolism in Persian Carpet Designs; (9) Women in Persian Art and Poetry; (10) Horses from Luristan Bronzes to Nasser Ovissi; (11) Iranian Ceremonies, Holidays and Holydays; and (12) Contemporary Iranian Art and Poetry, 1960s-2020.