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* Berlin conference: The movie!
* Three Iranian films get French distributors
* Poet: Praise for Abdolrezaie
* Censors should use more common sense
* Poetry: Attar Day
* Treasure hunters raid tomb
* Preserving tomb of Sheikh Safi's grandson
* Iranian studies & the West
* "Persia" published in Russia
* "Men of God" sing in Europe
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Thursday
April 27, 2000
* Golshiri in hospital
Tehran (Iran daily) - Novelist Houshang Golshiri has been hospitalized
in Tehran for an undisclosed lung ailment >>>
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* Western-style art re-emerges years after going underground
April 9, 2000, TEHRAN, Iran (The Dallas Morning News) - Of course, after
two decades of cultural isolation, putting on display what was previously
off-limits does raise certain questions for Iran's patrons of the arts.
For example: Who is this Mick Jagger? >>>
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* Two views on Afkhami's film
Tehran (Ham-Mihan) - Two views on Behrouz Afkhami's "Shoakaraan".
The reviews have been generally positive but it has been attacked by the
conservatives >>>
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Wednesday
April 26 2000
* U.S. critic pays tribute to ``overlooked''
films
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (Reuters) - Movie critic Roger
Ebert, whose thumbs-up is coveted by Hollywood studios, championed films
from Iran, India, and the silent era Wednesday at the opening of his second
annual ``overlooked film festival.'' Ebert, who writes for the Chicago
Sun-Times and hosts a weekly television show, has said he started the festival
in part to compensate for the ``melancholy experience of finding a film
to truly love -- and then discovering that most people have never heard
of it.'' >>>
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* New books and book fair
Tehran (Ham-Mihan) - Some 1,279 Iranian publishers
are offering their latest at the Tehran international book fair. Here's
some of the new books just entering the market >>> FULL TEXT
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* Golestan's film withstands test of time
Tehran (Ham-Mihan) - The Arts College film club
has been showing a series of films lately, including Ebrahim Golestan's
"Khesht o Ayeneh" (Brick and Mirror), which was heavily criticized
when it was made way before the 1979 revolution. But time is the best critic
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* Berlin conference: The movie!
Tehran (Mosharekat) - With all the fuss over the
Berlin conference, why not make a film about it? That's exactly what Hamid
Bahmani wants to do >>>
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Tuesday
April 25, 2000
* Three Iranian films get French distributors
Tehran (Ham-Mihan) - French companies get distribution
rights for Samira Makhmalbaf's "Takhteh Siaah" (Blackboard),
Mohammad Hassan Yekta-Panah's "Jomeh" (Friday) and Bahman Qobadi's
"Zamaani baraay-e masti-ye asb -haa" (A time for drunken horses)
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* Poet: Praise for Abdolrezaie
Tehran (Mosharekat) - Ali Abdolrezaie is a young
poet whose whork has been praised by critics. Here's a review of (PDF file)
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* Censors should use more common sense
Tehran (Mosharekat) - President Khatami and Guidance
Minister Ataollah Mohajerani deserve praise for the wider of variety of
books made available to the public during the past year. But there's one
"small problem": The censors should be reasonable in their reviews
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Monday
April 24, 2000
* Poetry: Attar Day
Tehran (Hamshahri) - The 25th of Farvardin (April 13) has been named
Attar Day. Learn a little about the great poet in this interview with Mashhad
University professor Reza Ashrafzadeh >>>
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* Treasure hunters raid tomb
Tehran (Hamshahri) - The tomb of 14th century mystic Sheikh Mahmoud
Khiavai in Astara has been vandalized several times by treasure hunters
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* Preserving tomb of Sheikh Safi's grandson
Tehran (Hamshahri) - The tomb of Ali, Sheikh Safiyedin's grandson, in
Dezful has been registered as a national monument >>>
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Friday
April 21, 2000
* Iranian studies & the West
Tehran (Hamshahri) - For decades Western scholars have written extensively
about Iranian history. Now their work is being critiqued and reviewed by
Iranian scholars. In an interview, Dr. Mahmoud Ebadian explains >>>
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* "Persia" published in Russia
Tehran (Mosharekat) - The first issue of "Persia" has been
published in Moscow. The magazine is the joint effort of Iran's cultural
office in Moscow, the Russian Academy of Sciences and "Asia-Africa"
magazine >>>
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* "Men of God" sing in Europe
Tehran (Mosharekat) - Performances by "Mardaan-e khodaa" (Men
of God) -- an Iranian spiritual musical group led by vocalist Mohammadian
-- has been widely received in Austria and Hungary >>>
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