Archive - Aug 2009

ROYALTY: Ahmad Shah Qajar welcomed at the Guildhall, London (1919)

Film shows Persia's Last Qajar Shah, Ahmad Soltan greeted by Prince Albert ( Later to become King George VI) at Guidhall, London during the Persian King's State Visit. Watch film (circa 1919) >>>

Coffee and Conversation (2)

As soon as a nice coffee shop opens up around here, hordes of Gucci knock-offs and disaster nose jobs descend and take away the ambiance. August in LA is stifling. I need to get out. If you drive west on Highway 101 towards Santa Barbara and take the State Street exit, the road twists and turns through the mountains and eventually brings you, in the middle of nowhere, to a slice of Scandinavia – a place that goes by the name of Solvang. Patisseries, ice cream parlors and cafés abound. Once there, it is quite possible to think that one has died and gone to java heaven>>>

The Ascension

Aunt Tahmineh somehow knew she would remain barren until she had found a name for her future child. So for the first fifteen years of her marriage, she and her husband fought over what they would call their unconceived offspring. She liked authentic Iranian names, while her husband, a religious man, insisted on a character from the Koran. Finally they came to an agreement. If the child were a girl, they would name her Farangis, an ancient Iranian heroine. If it were a boy, they would name him Esma’il, a Koranic name which also appears in the Bible as Ishmael, the son of Abraham. Esma’il means “God listens.” Presumably, “God listens to us and has answered our prayer for a child.”>>>

چلیپا

رخسار تو در ظلمت گیسوی چلیپا
صبح دل‌ عشاق بود در شب یلدا

پیمانه صهبای نگاه تو در آن صبح
خود مست و دو صد مست بر آن واله و شیدا

و آن موی که نخجیر گه گله دلهاست
در هر خم او کرده دلی‌ مسکن و ماوا >>>

Lost Game

To the wind I look
standing outside
awaiting you
impatiently
awaiting you with dreamy eyes
here behind all that is next to lost, I stand hopeless
awaiting for the wind to leave
without you
playing a lost game >>>

هندستون خمینی

دوتوکویل خوندشون فیلش هوای هندستون خمینی رو کرده >>>

pictory: British & US News Reel on Mossadegh and the Oil Crisis (1951)

Several British and US News Reels from the 1950's Oil Crisis Years with Prime Minister Mohamed Mossadegh. (circa 1951-1953) >>>

یک احساساتی‌ در کیوتو

از یاد داشتهای من

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رقص ایرانی‌ در کاخ گلستان

کلیپ رقص سنتی ایرانی‌ که در کاخ گلستان توسط خانم منیر وکیلی در سال ۱۳۵۷ تهیهٔ و کارگردانی شده.

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