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Nov 23-27, 1998 / Azar 2-6, 1377
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* Music: "Iranian
Orchestra of New Persian Music"
* Literature: Shahnameh guide
published
* Archaeology: 6,500-year-old
remains
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* 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
* Film: London film fest award
for young Makhmalbaf
* Film: De Niro to feature
in Iranian movie showcase
* Books: Interview with Mohajerani
* Play: "Azeez-eh maaee"
* Culture: New head of
"Daaneshnaameh-ye Faarsi" project
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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
TEXT IN PERSIAN
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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
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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
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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
TEXT IN PERSIAN
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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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* Imad-afshar passes away
Tehran, Nov. 20, IRNA - Hossein imad-afshar, professor of methodolog
and persian literature at the iranian university and the academic institutions
died here thursday... FULL
TEXT
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* De Niro to feature in Iranian movie showcase
TEHRAN, Nov 19 (AFP) -One of Iran's top public universities is to showcase
a series of films featuring Hollywood star Robert De Niro despite the Islamic
republic's hostility towards Western culture. Tehran's University of Art
will be screening De Niro movies including "Angel Heart," "Cape
Fear" and "Mission," the Iran newspaper reported Thursday...
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* London film fest award for young Makhmalbaf
Tehran, (HAMSHAHRI) - An international film festival in London has given
the best film award to Samira Makhmalbaf for her first film, "Seeb"
("The Apple")... FULL
TEXT IN PERSIAN
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* Interview with Mohajerani
Tehran, (HAMSHAHRI) - Culture Minister Ataollah Mohajerani says a draft
proposal from the publishers guild aimed at changing the current tough
laws governing book publishing is being studied (last question) ...
FULL TEXT
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* "Azeez-eh maaee"
Tehran, (HAMSHAHRI) - "Azeez-eh maaee" (You are our dearest)
is a play that tells the story of a soldier who has been missing for the
past nine years returns to a home and family much changed during his absence
... FULL
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* New head of "Daaneshnaameh-ye Faarsi" project
Tehran, (HAMSHAHRI) - Dr Naderqoli Qorchian has become the new head
of the Persian encyclodedia (Daaneshnaameh-ye Faarsi) project, replacing
Dr. Ahmad Bireshk ... FULL
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