Quatrains of Omar Khayyam, Astronomer-Poet of Persia

Mitra Ara is a cultural historian and Professor of Persian and Iranian Studies, and Founding Director of the Persian Studies program in the College of Liberal and Creative Arts at San Francisco State University, USA. She is the author of Eschatology in the Indo-Iranian Traditions: The Genesis and Transformation of a Doctrine (2008); A Lexicon of the Persian Language of Shiraz (2017); Systematic Guide to Reading and Writing Persian Language (2018); and Do You See What I See (I and II, 2020), in addition to articles, conference presentations, and public speeches. She has been formally recognized for her work in changing the environment of Iranian and Persian studies in public universities and contributing to the scholarship of West Asian studies.