In conjunction with UNESCO's designation of 2007 as the "Year of Rumi," Joe Martin (Yousef Daoud) released a stage adaptation of Rumi's Mathnavi. For ten years, Rumi had been the best selling poet in America. But until Joe Martin's book, most English speakers had found it almost impossible to get a sense of the world of his greatest work, the Mathnavi. The first edition of Joe Martin's dramatic adaptation provided that opportunity. But the first...