Archive - Mar 8, 2010

Hayedeh

A year after the overthrow of the Shah, the Islamic Revolutionary Court issued a subpoena with a list of singers and actors who were ordered to surrender to Evin authorities. Second on the list was Massoumeh Dadeh-Baalaa, known to the music world as Hayedeh. The ominous document, scribbled in course handwriting, can be seen in Pejman Akbarzadeh’s encyclopedic video biography of the legendary Iranian diva. Akbarzadeh chronicles Hayedeh’s life with such detail and insight that by the sad end we realize the storyteller has covered territory beyond the life of one artist; he has shed light on the world of the Iranian exile>>>

It's called mindset

Very intersting...thought of sharing it with you all >>>

هوار هوار

هوار هوار يا هوار ياروم مي ايه
هوار هوار يا هوار دلداروم ميايه >>>

A New Day

in a moment of pause
you had gone
I walked away wondering
how I could not see you leave
Now whispers in me
words of regrets
longing to begin a new day >>>

Dear friends we need your support

When we started this group, it was hoped that we would turn the opposition movement outside Iran into an anti-apartheid, Solidarnosc type campaign, another words we want to bring Iranians outside their bubble>>>

For the record

This is healthy debate in a very unhealthy blog, lamenting the inability to freely trash others in IC. I did not want it to stay there, for a blogger who does not deserve >>>

Journée Internationale des Femmes

Alors que le 8 mars était un symbole de laïcité contre l’église catholique, il devient maintenant plutôt une lutte mondiale contre la misogynie de la mosquée islamique. >>>

pictory: The Shah's White Revolution (1960's)

The Shah's White Revolution known as the Revolution of Shah and People aka Enghelabeh Shah va Mardom described on French and Swiss Television. (circa 1960's) >>>

Eidi

Just in time for the Persian New Year>>>

MES CAHIERS: "Teheran is the capital of Iran" by Kamran Shirdel (1966)

Kamran Shirdel's Anti Pahlavi Manisfesto takes a harsh look at the "Other Tehran" and the "outcasts" of the Shah's White Revolution in the 1960's. The Film's intro and commentary as heard here were re-edited after the Revolution of 1979. >>>