Archive - Aug 7, 2009

Nostalgia: Radio Show "Omar, The Wizard of Persia" (1935)

Omar Khayyam influenced popular and exorcized Western ideas of Persia, and his romanticized life was translated into numerous silent films, radio shows. Listen to this old time radio show Omar:The Wizard of Persia. >>>

Much unconsidered

A much unconsidered thought: “in this rotten land,
What can captives do, with shackles of confinement?”
To run with shackles, that’s a skillful deed,
Else the ball runs freely on the princes’ field.
Many such imprisoned, like the golden Sun,
Have laughed down on comedy of these showmen >>>

pictory: Shapour Bakhtiar Student Years at the Sorbonne, Paris (~1936)

Shapour Bakhtiar left for France in 1936 to pursue his studies. He received his PhD, in political science (in 1939), as well as degrees in law and philosophy, from Sorbonne.(circa 1936) >>>