Rumi's Little Book of Life

Rumi was a 13th-century Persian Muslim poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic.

Natasha Soudek is an experienced actor, singer, and audiobook narrator. The daughter of two English professors, she grew up in the southern United States, Berlin, and Vienna. Her work includes Super Bowl commercials, television shows, playing sold-out live music shows, and appearing as the first blonde Vulcan in Star Trek history. She currently resides in New York City.

"Maryam Mafi is a native Persian speaker who has translated multiple books of Rumi’s poetry. She left Iran in 1977 to study Sociology and Literature in the United States and, while reading for her Master’s degree in International Communications, began translating Persian literature. She lives in London and travels to Tehran several times a year to study with her teacher, who is an Iranian authority on Rumi.

Azima Melita Kolin was born in Bulgaria, a concert pianist and an artist. She completed her studies in the Musical Academies in Sofia, Rome and Geneva and has been a winner of many International competitions in Germany, Italy and Spain. She created and ran a Chamber Music Festival on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, for ten years. She also studied painting and has had many exhibitions in the UK and abroad.