He originally illustrated a version of the story of King Simorgh for Jorge Luis Borges' 2005 Book of Imaginary Beings, but this is on another scale entirely. The Conference of the Birds takes ...

Twelfth century Persian poet Farid Ud-Din Attar's epic poem The Conference of the Birds is now adapted in a gorgeously illustrated book by Peter Sis. A MacArthur fellow and Caldecott award winner ...

And I mean that in the best possible way. When Sis decided to make his first book for adults, he encountered no cap on page number, which he admits made The Conference of the Birds difficult to finish ...

He speaks his own language through all of his books. But The Conference of Birds in particular has a distinctly Sis-ian sense of dislocation and an equally typical return to hope, discovered when ...

The book designer deserves a nod in this fine effort as well. The pages are a wood-free linen grain, roughly textured to feel like sketchbook paper. Leafing through “The Conference of the Birds ...

So for that, that book weaves in the 12th century, Persian mistake and poet ATARs conference of the birds, which is an ... connecting it all is, is poetry and legends and this almost other worldly ...

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 ...