Author2Author with Peter Booth

Bill welcomes scholar and translator Peter Booth to the show. Peter is a Hafiz scholar and translator, co-author of Dante I Hafiz, and member of the DC area Iranian Culture Association. He studied Sanskrit and sacred Indian texts at Georgetown University in his teens, received a B.A. in English Literature from Bard College, and attended Harvard Graduate School in Persian Language and Literature, studying with Annemarie Schimmel and Wheeler Thackston. He then studied Persian Literature at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, on a scholarship from the Shah of Iran. For 32 years he was a resident in Avatar Meher Baba’s home, Meherabad, in rural India, where he helped build water and electrical systems, roads, and other infrastructure, and through extensive afforestation and applied environmental technology, increased the area's average annual rainfall from 9 to over 20 inches. He also contributed translations to the just relased The Illuminated Hafiz: Love Poems for the Journey to Light. Don't miss it!