Directing a play is about more than just entertaining an audience, says Hafiz Karmali, Brandeis Theater Company’s guest director of “The Conference of the Birds,” in production at the Laurie Theater ...

The film centers on a flock of birds who are the sole survivors of a man-made natural disaster. Leading the avian gang is Hod-Hod, a young adventurous hoopoe who sets off on a quest to meet the ...

But he is now known for his literary works, on top of which is Manteq al-Tayr, or The Conference of the Birds. The Conference of the Birds consists of 4600 couplets. The work describes the journey of ...