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Uploaded by on Feb 3, 2009

Watch a trailer for the exhibition "The Persian Sensation: 'The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám' in the West," on display through August 2 at the Harry Ransom Center.

Featuring 200 items from the Ransom Center's collections, this exhibition explores how a translation of Persian verses about mortality, fate, and doubt went from obscurity to celebrity in British and American culture.

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