IRAN

Rainbow of colors

Rainbow of colors

Photo essay: Colorful Norooz in Tehran

by Kiomars Ehdaivand
26-Mar-2009 (15 comments)

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مسعود از امریکا
26-Mar-2009 (19 comments)

چهل و دومین (٤٢) سال درگذشت 

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DANCE

Music to our ears

Musical remix of Obama's Norooz message to Iranians

26-Mar-2009 (22 comments)
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Enlightening the clueless Roger II

Fred

Be Wary of Putting Too Much Trust in Iran’s Leaders

The New York Times
recommended by Fred
26-Mar-2009 (3 comments)
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After Freeman its Cohen's Turn to be Attacked

capt_ayhab

An Inconvenient Truth About Iran

The Huffington Post / Eberhard Kronhausen and Phyllis Kronhaus
recommended by capt_ayhab
26-Mar-2009 (one comment)
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Darius Kadivar
26-Mar-2009
Ali Baba et les quarante voleurs directed by Ferdinand Zecca for the Pathé Studio's in Paris. (1905) >>>
bluepiano2
26-Mar-2009 (2 comments)
Pouya Yaghmaie and I wrote and performed this song/poem>>>
Darius Kadivar
26-Mar-2009
Nice clip of a TV show where Iran's Great Diva sings an Ode to Spring and the Persian New Year. (circa 1975) >>>
hossein.hosseini
26-Mar-2009 (25 comments)

While Obama has only been in the office for a little over 60 days, he is under attack from all sides.  I mean let’s give the guy a break.

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MASTERS

Namâd

Namâd

Photo essay: Persian poetry of rebellion hits a classical note

by Mersedeh
26-Mar-2009

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LalehGillani
26-Mar-2009 (2 comments)
In my previous blog, I introduced a few tips to help bloggers mix Farsi and English paragraphs in a passage of text. Although these tips were useful, one limitation was not addressed at all: >>>

MARVELOUS

Namâd

Persian poetry of rebellion hits a classical note

26-Mar-2009 (18 comments)
Namâd Ensemble is once again touring, delivering commendable performances at each venue. If you are already familiar with them, you understand what makes them worthy of praise. If, these musicians are unknown to you, however, you may wonder what genre their music falls under and what exactly sets them apart. Mentioning that these five men collectively play Tombak, Frame Drums, Daf, Udu, Kamanche, Queychak, Setar and Shourangiz, may automatically invoke images of a traditional Iranian group; but Namâd is more than that. Before we jump to labels, perhaps we should pause to consider that while a performance is a transitory experience for the audience, for the musicians it is the culmination of months and years of struggle to render the extract of their essence into the language of composition>>>

CREATIVE

Way to Beg, lady

These days, I feel more sympathy for beggars

26-Mar-2009 (6 comments)
There is this lady who begs almost everyday near my workplace. I first noticed her more than couple years ago. What made her stand out from all the other beggars is how she went about asking for money. She said something to the effect that whether people wanted to help her with her goal of making some amount of dollars. I forgot the number of dollars she mentioned but what was interesting to me was how she talked about her goal and somehow made her begging a little bit higher class than all the others. She had a goal and was working towards it and here was passersby’ chance to help her achieve her goal>>>