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April 10-14, 2000 / Farvardin 22-26, 1379
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* Khayyam for the blind
* Old as new
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* Mehrjui on his trip to DC
* Panahi's film going to Venice
* Victory for theater
* Pre-revolution Iran actor mourned
* Books:
Rumi and Sadat
* New classical music CD
* Sasanid building turned into mosque,
long ago
* Authors in New York
* Afkhami defends his film
* Remembering Fardin
* Fardin buried in section for artists
* New book on Mossadegh
* Ethnic jokes on TV - not funny
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Friday
April 14, 2000
* Khayyam for the blind
Tehran (Hamshahri) - For the first time Omar Khayyam Rubaiyat has been
published in Persian braille for the blind >>>
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* Old as new
Tehran (Hamshahri) - Old movie houses in Tehran and the provinces are
gradually being renovated, including Tehran's "BB" and "Royal"
theaters which have been renamed "Payam-e Enghelab" and "Ferdosi"
since the revolution >>>
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* Emamzadeh
Tehran (Hamshahri) - Emamzadeh Mohammad and Ebrahim near Oroumiyeh get
a face lift >>>
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Thursday
April 13, 2000
* Mehrjui on his trip to DC
Tehran (Asr-e Azadegan) - Daryoush Mehrjui speaks about his participation
in a conference in Washington which aims to promote dialogue between Iran
and the U.S. >>>
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* Panahi's film going to Venice
Tehran (Asr-e Azadegan) - Jafar Panahi's latest film, "Daayereh",
has been invited to the Venice film festival. The film is considered controversial
and has been yet received a permit to be screened in Iran >>>
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* Victory for theater
Tehran (Asr-e Azadegan) - Tehran city council has reversed its decision
to tax theater box office revenues >>>
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Wednesday
April 12, 2000
* Pre-revolution Iran actor mourned
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Thousands of Iranians turned
out Wednesday to mourn the death of ``the sultan of hearts,'' a popular
movie actor who faded from the silver screen after Iran's 1979 revolution
but lived on in memories and on bootleg videos. Some 15,000 fans, among
them Iranians too young to remember Mohammad Ali Fardin's glory days on
the screen, crammed into the Belal mosque in northern Tehran and spilled
out into nearby streets, bringing traffic to a halt >>>
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* Books: Rumi and Sadat
Tehran (Hamshahri) - Two new books: Rumi's ghazals
compiled by Siroos Shamisa and "Assassination of a President"
which details the death of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and includes
statements made by his assassin, Khaleh Islamboli >>> FULL
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* New classical music CD
Tehran (Hamshahri) - Members of the Tehran Symphony
Orchestra have put out a new CD with well-known Western classical compositions
and a number of original works by Iranian musicians >>> FULL
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* Sasanid building turned into a mosque...
a long time ago
Tehran (Hamshahri) - "Khaaneh-ye Khodaa"
or "Naari Khaaneh" is a mosque built in Damghan in the ninth
century A.D. But the original structure dates back to the Sasanid era >>>
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Tuesday
April 11, 2000
* Authors in New York
Tehran (Asr-e Azadegan) - Iranian authors discuss post-revolutionary
literature at New York University >>>
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* Afkhami defends his film
Tehran (Asr-e Azadegan) - Nurses are upset about how they are portrayed
in Behrouz Afkhami's latest film, "Shokaran". Afkhami says the
film has nothing to do with the medical profession >>>
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* Remembering Fardin
Tehran (Asr-e Azadegan) - "People never forgot the artists who
were set aside" >>>
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Monday
April 10, 2000
* Fardin buried in section for artists
Tehran (Hamshahri) - So many Tehranis came to say goodbye to Fardin
that funeral procession plans had to be changed >>>
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* New book on Mossadegh
Tehran (Hamshahri) - Mohammad Ali Movahed has just published "Khaab-e
aashofteh-ye naft" -- a new two-volume biography on Mohammad Mossadegh
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* Ethnic jokes on TV - not funny
Tehran (Hamshahri) - Complaints about ethnic jokes on Iran's state TV.
First the Azaris were offended, now the Arabs >>>
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