#Translation project Ertyaas asked me yesterday if I know what they are saying in this song (link above). It was a song by Hafez Nazeri’s Rumi project. This invoked some old memories. I used to hear Shahram Nazeri (Hafez’s father) a lot few years back during my Africa days. The father and son duo are coming from Kurdish Persian diaspora and infuse Sufi poetry from all the sufi poets in their singing (link to old blog with his song and translation) I also recalled, back in school days, how our urdu language teacher used to teach us, to understand poetry in its essence. It was a process of peeling layers…