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Round and round

Javad Montazeri, Peyman Hooshmandzadeh and Omid Salehi recently founded 135 PHOTOS, a photo agency in Tehran. (10 total) (10 total)

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Best of both worlds

The only plausible explanation for categorizing music, is to make it easier to find what you are looking for in music stores. But in the

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Khaleh Kobra

Khaleh (Aunt) Kobra lives with her mother on the Caspian coast. She makes her living from fishing. (14 total) (14 total) Omid Salehi, Javad Montazeri

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Piety among atheists

I did not see my grandmother often since she lived in Iran, in her own house by herself. Despite my mother's appeals to come and

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A separate world

Excerpt from In the Walled Garden (Little Brown & Company; 2002). Set in Iran before the revolution — a world on the brink of destruction

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Circular brushwork

What makes Freydoon Rassouli's art so unique is the way he translates spiritual  experience from his subconscious onto canvas through meditation.With vibrant hues, Rassouli produces joyful

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Fantastic tales

My style is something between modern and traditional, or between abstract and figurative. I like painting and drawing heros, princes, pipers, mermaids, horses and birds

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Secret of Runes

In Persian calligraphy, characters take on a life of their own. They twist and curl in magnificent forms, hiding within them a meaning that only

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Black wrap

(10 total) (10 total) Omid Salehi, Javad Montazeri and Peyman Hooshmandzadeh are founders of 135 PHOTOS, a photo agency in Tehran.

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The clap is back

I am just coming from a pop concert, not too far from my home. I was so touched I don't think it is relevant who

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Now what?

Well guys, let's just say that the whole reason I haven't been writing these past few days is that the shit has hit the fan

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Hafiz… Jogging!

An old poetic Persian proverb says: Har cheh begandad namakash mizanand. Vaay beh roozy keh begandad namak! My suggested trans-literation: Salt is added to whatever

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The bridge to Calcutta

…………………………Pegah …………………………(Pegah is looking out of the hotel room window. …………………………She turns and catches Jubin staring at her from the …………………………bed.) I wish you wouldn't

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