Introduction -- The beginning of the story -- Layli and Majnun fall in love with one another -- A description of Majnun's love -- Majnun goes to Layli's home and sings there -- Majnun's father goes to ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The immediate antecedent to Mark Morris’s Layla and Majnun may date back only a century, to the first Azerbaijani ...

LONDON – Qays, a young man, is so immersed in his love for the beautiful Layla that he quite literally loses his mind, earning him the nickname Majnun - "madman". In turn, Layla's parents forbid her ...

The first time Mark Morris saw Layla and Majnun performed, a decade ago, he was entranced, but not persuaded. Cellist Yo Yo Ma had invited him to hear Alim Qasimov and his daughter Fargana Qasimova ...

In this substantial volume, Davis offers the first verse translation of the 12th-century Persian poet Nezami, whose love story between Layli and Majnun has been likened to Shakespeare’s Romeo and ...

“Layla and Majnun,” a classic Azerbaijani tale of young lovers and meddling parents, has been compared to “Romeo and Juliet.” In Mark Morris Dance Group’s production, which opened at the Kennedy ...

What first provoked my curious attention when I opened João Almino’s novel, Enigmas of Spring, was that its hero was known as Majnun. “Let’s call our hero Majnun,” Almino announces in his opening ...

Choreographer Mark Morris doesn’t see cultural boundaries when he’s creating art. In a social landscape where appropriation is a hot-button issue, he refuses to block himself off from other cultures. ...

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