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Shusha Guppy

Shusha Guppy is a writer, singer and songwriter. Among her albums are Persian Love Songs and Mystic Chants. Her books include The Blindfold Horse: Memories of a Persian childhood, and most recently, Three Journeys in the Levant (Starhaven, 2001).

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The spirit of Persian monarchy

Firdowsi’s epic, “The Book of Kings”, is even more than a great product of Persian civilisation. In conveying the essence of kingship as divinely ordained yet conditional on just and protective rule, the principles of the millennium-old epic still have the power to move – and convince.

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