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Political
Ayatollah
Khomeini's Grandson: 'Iran Needs Democracy and
Separation of Religion and State;' 'The Iranian Regime Is the
World's Worst Dictatorship'
Call
for European Union to break with Iran over journalist's death
Reportes Without Borders
RSF
Reporters Without Borders called on the European Union today to
break off the "constructive dialogue" it has conducted
with Iran since 1998 until officials responsible for the death
of Canadian-Iranian photographer Zahra Kazemi earlier this month
had been brought to trial.
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Azar Nafisi
in the Washington Post
'Do I Have
Life? Or Am I Just Breathing?'
Azar Nafisi
knows something about using language and literature as a means
of withdrawal from a hostile reality. Nafisi, now director of
The Dialogue Project at the Johns Hopkins University in
Washington, quit her job teaching English literature at an
Iranian university in frustration in 1995 and established a
secret weekly salon in her home in Tehran. For two years, she
and seven of her former students met to discuss forbidden
works of Western literature. Her memoir of that time,
"Reading Lolita in Tehran," was published by Random
House this year.
Opinion
One
Million Iranian March
By:
Amil Imani
Walter
Lippmann in his essay " A preface to Morals said: "
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of
destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal. Justice
William O. Douglas said, " Ideas are indeed the most
dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the
most powerful political weapons man has ever forged."
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Literature
Dr. Jalil Doostkhah
donates his library
to Ferdosi Cultural
Foundation of Isfaha
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Iran Shenassi
Chand Nokteh
Dar Baarey-e Matn-e Pahlavi-e
"Shahrestanhay-e
Iran"
Sent by: Professor
Touraj Daryaee
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The Coinage
of Queen Boran and its significance for
Late Sasanian
Imperial Ideology
Sent by: Professor
Touraj Daryaee
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History
The Legendary
Fortress of Hassan Sabah
This text
is a report of a trip to Alamut, a region on the southwest of the
Caspian Sea and the northeast of Qazvin, near Lake Evan. It was the
political and military center of Hassan Sabah, the founder of the
Ismaili sect, which came about during the reign of the Seljuq king,
Malekshah.
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Cyrus
the Great Became Top Leader Of His Era By Championing Just Rule
Leaders & Success
By Matthew Benjamin
When the conqueror Cyrus the Great rode into Babylon, the
city's vanquished erupted in cheers.
Yes, they'd have to bend to his rule. But Cyrus (580-530? B.C.)
made sure that wouldn't be difficult. In contrast to other
rulers of his day, he was just. In fact, his style of government
was a critical factor in his becoming the greatest ruler of his
time.
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Life Story
A person of
no concern
By BEHZAD
YAGHMAIAN
After the
last of his close family in Afghanistan died in vendettas and in
the bombings of the 2001 war, Sharoukh Khan set out to find his
Eden in England. He had a map, a little money and the huge
conviction that he was heading to a new life. He made it as far
as Bulgaria, was expelled to Turkey, and is now desperate, poor
and alone in Istanbul. He is not yet 20 years old.
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Cinema
"Orson's
last Sigh ..."
The whereabouts of
Orson Welles' Testimonial Film
By Darius Kadivar
"In
Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare,
terror, murder, bloodshed--they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo
da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly
love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did
they produce? The cuckoo clock!" - Harry Lime (Orson Welles)
in Carol Reed's 'The
Third Man'
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Website
devoted to the director of the film Alexander the Great
The most expected Epic
film of the Century based on Alexander the Great with Leonardo
Di Caprio will be shot in Australia due to fears after the
terrorist threats and attacks in Morroco. The Latter country is
one of the major places which in latter years has attracted
Hollywood and European film studios for such films like
"The Gladiator" or "Asterix and Obelix:
Mission Cleopatra", Oliver Stone is also filming s
story on Alexander starring Colin Farrel and Anthony Hopkins
and it will probably be in my opinion a much better adaptation
given the director's talent and personal filmography ( Wall
Street, Platton, JFK, Nixon ). Nevertheless this website is
about the film made with Di Caprio and Nicole
Kidman. Who will be cast as Persian King Darius III is still a
mystery and whether or not his role will be as important is
not sure yet, as for the Persians we shall see.
http://devoted.to/bazthegreat
Some funny
yet interesting suggestions on this website actually fansite
for Alexander film.
Sent by:
Dariush Kadivar
Roger Moore the
hero of Kavoshgaran remember the Persuaders is Knighted
for his efforts for UNICEF. See official website :
Sent by:
Dariush Kadivar
Art
The latest on
Iranian art around the world
Sent by:
Dariush Kadivar
A
number of Iranian artists were among the 117 international
participants at the 6th Sharjah International Art Biennial.
Directed by the 23-year-old Sheikha Hoor Al-Qasimi (daughter of
the Sheikh of Sharjah) and curated by London-based Peter Lewis,
this year’s event claims to be putting Sharjah on the
international art map, while exploring “new art practices.”
Work by artists such as Christo and Jeanne-Claude was displayed
alongside works from various regions of Asia and the
Middle-East.
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Empress of
the Arts
by: Darius
Kadivar
Empress Farah's deep
interest and personal involvement in the arts have been largely
responsible for Iran's cultural many cultural movements and her
frequent visits to art exhibitions and performances gave fresh
incentive to all Iranian artistic activities
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