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* Film: The Kish controversy
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* Music: Daryoush Saghafi: Searching for Persian music
* Film: Cinema is mirror of society, Iranian director at Cannes says
* Culture: Iranica auction yields $1.4 million
* Books:
What's the problem with reading?
* Literature: Shamloo wins Swedish award
* Film: A critique of Qaderi's latest B movie
* Books: Love story is a best seller
* Film: Kiarostami's photo exhibit... and latest film
* Books: Publishers demand full rights
* Film: Films looking for distributors at Cannes
* Books: Short stories by Bahman-beygi
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* The Kish controversy
Film directors Bahram Bayzaie and Nasser Taghvaie are angry at a decision
by the Cannes film festival to cut their contribution to "Tales of
Kish" - a collection of films about the Iranian island in the Persian
Gulf. The festival ended this weekend and the film did not win any awards:
- Bahram
Bayzaie's protest letter
- Nasser
Taghvaie's protest letter
- Cannes
festival official's letter
Also see: Daily
Variety's review of "Tales of Kish"
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* Daryoush Saghafi: Searching for Persian music
Tehran, (Hamshahri) -- Santoor master Daryoush Saghafi is searching
for "true Persian classical music". Special feature ... FULL IMAGE TEXT
IN PERSIAN
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* Cinema is mirror of society, Iranian director at Cannes says
CANNES, France, May 14 (AFP) - Top Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf
returned to Cannes Friday with his entry in competition at the movie festival,
and said he hoped his work and cinema in general would help bring about
changes back home ... FULL
TEXT IN PERSIAN
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* Iranica auction yields $1.4 million
Washington, DC, May 7, 1999, (Iran Times) - London, A collection of
Persian art and books collected over a third of a century by Professor
Ehsan Yarshater was auctioned off at Christie's in London last month and
brought in almost $1.4 million. Dr. Yarshater is the founding editor of
the Encyclopedia Iranica. He contributed his personal art collection to
the auction to underwrite the continuing publication of the encyclopedia
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TEXT
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* What's the problem with reading?
Tehran, (Hamshahri) -- Books in Iran rarely have a circulation of more
than 5000. That's unacceptale for a country of more than 60 million ...
FULL IMAGE
TEXT IN PERSIAN
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* Shamloo wins Swedish award
Tehran, (Iran daily) - Ahmad Shamloo has won the prestigious Stig Dagerman
literary award from Sweden ... FULL
IMAGE TEXT IN PERSIAN
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* A critique of Qaderi's latest B movie
Tehran (Hamshahri) - On the one hand, you have Abbas Kiarostami. On
the other there's Iraj Qaderi. His films haven't earned him much respect,
but they sell a lot more tickets than any of Kiarostami's work ... FULL PERSIAN IMAGE
TEXT
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* Love story is a best seller
Tehran (Hamshahri) - "Talkhak" a novel by Nasser Karami has
been one of the best selling books in Iran in recent months. It's a love
story ... FULL
PERSIAN IMAGE TEXT
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* Kiarostami's photo exhibit... and latest film
Tehran, (Ettela'at) - Film director Abbas Kiarostami is busy preparing
for a photo exhibit in Tehran's Golestan Gallery next month. He's also
putting the finishing touches for his latest film ... FULL
IMAGE TEXT IN PERSIAN
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* Books: Publishers demand full rights
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - Major feature on the state of book publishing:
Many publishers demand full rights to reprint before publishing books ...
FULL IMAGE
TEXT IN PERSIAN
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* Ancient gold chalice to go on display
Tehran (Iran daily) - A 3,200-year-old gold chalice, one of the many
spectacular finds from the Hassanlou region, will go on public display
for the first time beginning March 3 ... IMAGE
TEXT IN PERSIAN
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* Short stories by Bahman-beygi
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - A collection of short stories by Mohammad Bahaman-beygi,
a novelist who writes about nomadic tribe life, has just been published
... FULL PERSIAN
IMAGE TEXT
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