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* Literature: Obituary:
Hamid Mossadegh
* Literature: The last word
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* Film: Iran's first "3-D"
film
* Literature: Hamid Mossadeq
dies in Tehran
* Film: "The Jerk":
A serious comedy
* Theater: Festival will go
international
* Music: "Iranian
Orchestra of New Persian Music"
* Literature: Shahnameh guide
published
* Archaeology: 6,500-year-old
remains
* Archaeology: Imam Reza
coin discovered
* Play: Eugene O'Neal's "Hairy
Gorilla"
* Film: "Banoo"
released
* Film: Divorce Iranian
Style, in New York
* Literature: Imad-afshar passes
away
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* Obituary: Hamid Mossadegh
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - A biography of the late poet and grandson of prime
minister Mohammad Mossadegh ... FULL
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* The last word
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - A review of Hamid Mossadegh's last book of poems
... FULL
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* Iran's first "3-D" film
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - Faramarz Qahramani-far has directed Iran's first
3-D motion picture ... FULL
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* Hamid Mossadeq dies in Tehran
TEHRAN, Nov 28 (AFP) - Hamid Mossadeq, grandson of one of Iran's most
popular and controversial prime ministers Mohammad Mossadeq, died in Tehran
on Saturday following a heart attack. The 59-year-old Mossadeq died in
a Tehran hospital, the official news agency IRNA reported ... FULL TEXT
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* "The Jerk": A serious comedy
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - Mohammad Reza Honarmand gets high marks for a
masterful direction of "Mard-e avazi" (The Jerk), a comedy that
is on the same level as Mehrjuie's "Ejaareh-neshin-haa" (The
Tenants) ... FULL
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* Theater festival will go international
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - This year's Fajr Theater Festival will include
performances by foreign groups ... FULL
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* "Iranian Orchestra of New Persian Music"
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - Alireza Mashayekhi is the founder of the Iranian
Orchestra of New Persian Music. Here's an interview ... FULL
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* Shahnameh guide published
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - A book listing all the names of persons and places
in the Shahnameh has been published by Hossein Shahidi Mazandarani ...
FULL
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* Archaeology: 6,500-year-old remains
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - Archaeological digs begin at Qarreh Tappeh's 6,500-year-old
remains near Qamrood in Qom Province ... FULL
TEXT IN PERSIAN
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* Imam Reza coin discovered
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - A coin with the name and title of Imam Reza, while
he was the deputy to Mamoun, the ruling caliph nearly 1,200 years ago,
has been identified ... FULL
TEXT IN PERSIAN
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* Eugene O'Neal's "Hairy Gorilla"
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - Eugene O'Neal's "Hairy Gorilla" is being
performed in Tehran; directed by Akbar Zanjanpour ... FULL
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* "Banoo" released
I was looking for something in Pedram Missaghi's Iran Media site and suddenly I noticed this news: Dariush
Mehrjuie's "Banoo" which had been banned after it was made seven
years ago, has now been released at movie theaters in Iran. Read
all about it (in Persian)
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* Divorce Iranian Style, in New York
FILM FORUM - NEW YORK CITY
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9 - TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22 2 WEEKS
DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE
Directed by Kim Longinotto and Ziba Mir-Hosseini
ENGLAND, 1998
80 MINS.
IN FARSI WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
One woman tells the judge her husband is crazy: in 30 years he has refused
to let her answer the phone. (In Iran "craziness" is one of the
few acceptable grounds for divorce when proceedings are brought by a woman;
for men, divorce is granted upon request.) A 16-year-old, married at age
14 to a man 2 1/2 times her age, explains that she desperately wants a
divorce to go back to school. Another pleads for custody of her 4-year-old
daughter, having already lost custody of the older child. "You're
poisoning my tea," mutters the judge to a woman who insists he find
her misplaced file within the hour (he had suggested she return in a week).
Inside an Iranian divorce court, a stream of veiled women (some only teenager
others elderly) make use of reason, wit, charm, and chicanery to get what
they want above all else: a divorce. Daily: 2, 3:40, 5:20, 7, 8:40, 10:20
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