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Dec 21-24, 1998 / Azar 28-Dey 4, 1377
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* Film: Apple of father's
eye
* Literature: Fereydoun Moshiri
honored
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* Film: Samira Makhmalbaf's
Strange Fruit
* Music: Swedish award
for Bani-etemad
* Music: Afghani music
* Art: Shirin Neshat, New
York
* Art: Qajar symposium, New
York
* Literature: Obituary:
Hamid Mossadegh
* Literature: The last word
* Film: Iran's first "3-D"
film
* Literature: Hamid Mossadeq
dies in Tehran
* Music: "The Jerk":
A serious comedy
* Theater: Festival will go
international
* Music: "Iranian
Orchestra of New Persian Music"
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* Apple of father's eye
December 1998, (E-Run magazine) - Rotten Apples is a remarkable new
film by the three-year-old daughter of Iranian Utter Genius (and filmmaker)
Mohsen "Khatami-is-Gandhi" Makhmalbaf. Samira Makhmalbaf is following
her father's footsteps by achieving genius status with the liberal do-gooder
white folk who get to see these films before the natives do. Samira says
that she has nothing to say because she is only eighteen and wants a lollipop
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* Fereydoun Moshiri honored
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - A collection of Fereydoun Moshiri's poems, "Jashn
Naameh-ye Moshiri," has been completed by Ali Dehbashi and delivered
to the printers ... FULL
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* Strange Fruit
December 11, 1998, (The Independent) - Meet Samira. She's a director
from Iran, the new world capital of film. She's 18 years old. Samira Makhmalbaf
skips down the street, swinging her bag in the wind, cocky as a ferret.
I tell her how much I like her first film, The Apple. "Why?"
She stops and stares at me, aggressively. I haven't a clue what to say.
"See, people interview me, and expect me to answer things so profoundly
even though I'm only 18 and a half. And I ask you a simple question, and
you can't answer it."... FULL TEXT
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* Swedish award for Bani-etemad
TEHARN, (Hamshahri) - A Swedish cultural organization will award filmmaker
Rakhshan Bani-etamd for her exceptional work in the field of art and culture
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* Afghani music
TEHARN, (Hamshahri) - A Swedish cultural organization will award filmmaker
Rakhshan Bani-etamd for her exceptional work in the field of art and culture
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* ART IN REVIEW: Shirin Neshat, New York
By HOLLAND COTTER
11/27/1998
The New York Times
Shirin Neshat 'Turbulent'
Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris
120 Park Avenue, at 42d Street Manhattan
Through Jan. 15
Shirin Neshat, born in Iran in 1957, is best known for self-portrait
photographs in which she appears in a body-covering black chador, the female
garb as dictated by Islamic tradition, with a gun barrel protruding from
her robes. Gender politics is her subject; the repression of woman, whether
through fundamentalism or cultural exoticizing, is her target.... FULL TEXT
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* Qajar symposium, New York
The Brooklyn Museum of Art and the New York University Hagop Kevorkian
Center for Near Eastern Studies are pleased to present:
RE-PRESENTING THE QAJARS:
New Research in the Study of 19th Century Iran
Friday, December 11, 1998 at NYU, 1 pm to 5:30 pm and Saturday, December
12, 1998 at Brooklyn Museum of Art, 9am to 5:30 pm
Expanding upon themes in the special exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum
of Art, "Royal Persian Paintings: The Qajar Epoch 1785-1925,"
the symposiumwill bring together scholars of art, history, and culture
to discuss issues of representation, identity, revivalism, and modernity
in Iranian visual imagery and culture. For a complete listing of locations,
who will be presenting, and which specific topics will be presented, please
visit:
www.nyu.edu/gsas/program/neareast/events.html
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* Obituary: Hamid Mossadegh
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - A biography of the late poet and grandson of prime
minister Mohammad Mossadegh ... FULL
TEXT IN PERSIAN
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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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