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  • Johannes Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany's "greatest man of letters," declared himself indebted to the great Persian and Muslim poet, Hafez (the word Hafez means someone who has memorized the Qur'an completely), and said,

    Muhammad Sahimi: Now You Can Say It, President-Elect Obama: "So What If I Am a Muslim?" 2008

  • The attacks in Europe were stopped thanks to “Operation Autumn Leaves,” a joint effort by German intelligence, the CIA, and the Mossad in October 1988, which led to the arrest of a Palestinian terrorist by the name of Hafez Dalkamoni, who had previously been in an Israeli prison.

    The Secret War with Iran Ronen Bergman 2007

  • The attacks in Europe were stopped thanks to “Operation Autumn Leaves,” a joint effort by German intelligence, the CIA, and the Mossad in October 1988, which led to the arrest of a Palestinian terrorist by the name of Hafez Dalkamoni, who had previously been in an Israeli prison.

    The Secret War with Iran Ronen Bergman 2007

  • Johannes Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany's "greatest man of letters," declared himself indebted to the great Persian and Muslim poet, Hafez (the word Hafez means someone who has memorized the Qur'an completely), and said,

    Bloggers.Pakistan 2008

  • The tomb of Hafez, which is very like a religious shrine, with pilgrims who treat his poems as sacred prayers, and the tomb of Saadi, are both there.

    Larry Beinhart: The Designated Jew (An Iran Story) 2008

  • The first Afghan suicide bomber is believed to have been a man called Hafez Abdallah, who in 2004 threw himself on a military Jeep and detonated mortar bombs strapped to his body.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Ben Farmer 2012

  • He recites lyrics of such beloved thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Persian poets such as Hafez and Omar Khayyam with a guitar rhythm, and composes his own modern poems and performs them with the traditional Persian tar.

    Touraj Daryaee: Mohsen Namjoo: A New Music and Poetry for Modern Iran Touraj Daryaee 2010

  • He recites lyrics of such beloved thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Persian poets such as Hafez and Omar Khayyam with a guitar rhythm, and composes his own modern poems and performs them with the traditional Persian tar.

    Touraj Daryaee: Mohsen Namjoo: A New Music and Poetry for Modern Iran Touraj Daryaee 2010

  • He recites lyrics of such beloved thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Persian poets such as Hafez and Omar Khayyam with a guitar rhythm, and composes his own modern poems and performs them with the traditional Persian tar.

    Touraj Daryaee: Mohsen Namjoo: A New Music and Poetry for Modern Iran Touraj Daryaee 2010

  • He recites lyrics of such beloved thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Persian poets such as Hafez and Omar Khayyam with a guitar rhythm, and composes his own modern poems and performs them with the traditional Persian tar.

    Touraj Daryaee: Mohsen Namjoo: A New Music and Poetry for Modern Iran Touraj Daryaee 2010

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