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May 22-26, 2000 / Khordad 2-6, 1379
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Friday
May 26, 2000
* Nearly 90 films in 21 fests in one month
Tehran (Ettelaat) -- Sixty-three Iranian feature films and 28 short
films were shown at 21 international festivals or cultural centers during
the month of Farvardin. Milani's "Two women" and Kiarostami's
"The wind will take us there" had more screenings than others
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* Qajar era newspapers
Tehran (Ettelaat) -- Iran's print media is 164-years old -- the first
90 years being in the Qajar era. An exhibition in Tehran provides a perspective
in Ahmad Shah's palace in Niavaran >>>
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* "Some" historic documents have been sold abroad
Tehran (Ettelaat) -- Some historic documents held by individuals have
been sold abroad because of lack of regulations and the inability of government
archives to purchase them >>>
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Index
* Nearly 90 films in 21 fests in one
month
* Qajar era newspapers
* "Some" historic documents have been sold abroad
* Pop music or pure music?
* Three books
* Try-outs for Dutch film fest
* No
permission needed to make music -- with exceptions
* "Drunken Horses" won more
than one award
* Mythology & Etessami
* Shamlu hospitalized
* Sad aafarin!
* Ancient seals on display
* Iranians big winners at Cannes
* Book: Khuzestan
* Building more libraries
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Thursday
May 25, 2000
* Pop music or pure music?
Tehran (Hamshahri) -- There's a debate going on about which music is
better, Pop music or pure music. But why should one choose one over the
other? And do we have a clear understanding about what each one is? >>> FULL
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* Three books
Tehran (Hamshahri) -- Three books on Iranian current affairs: a chronology
of events leading to President Khatami's election in 1997, a discussion
on civilizational dialogue between Islam and Christianity by Mohammad Masjed
Jamehie, and Ramin Jahanbaglou's collected artricles about Iran and modernity
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* Try-outs for Dutch film fest
Tehran (Hamshahri) -- Dutch film festival officials will review Iranian
documentary films in Tehran for possible entry >>>
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Wednesday
May 24, 2000
* No permission needed to make music -- with
exceptions
Tehran, (Hamshahri) -- Seventy singers and musicians
are now allowed to produce music without getting any permission from the
Guidance Ministry. But women and Pop music singers are not among them >>> FULL TEXT
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* "Drunken Horses" won more than
one award
Tehran, (Hamshahri) -- Bahman Ghobadi didn't win
just win one award in Cannes for "A Time for Drunken Horses"
-- but three >>>
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* Mythology & Etessami
Tehran, (Honar) -- Al look at mythology in Parvin
Etessami's poetry >>>
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Tuesday
May 23, 2000
* Shamlu hospitalized
Tehran, (Bahar) -- Poet Ahmad Shamlu has been admitted to hospital once
again, due to complications from diabetes >>>
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* Sad aafarin!
Tehran, (Bahar) -- President Khatami and Guidance Minister congratulate
Samira Makhmalbaf and other Iranian filmmakers for their achivements at
Cannes >>>
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* Ancient seals on display
Tehran, (Hamshahri) -- For the first time seals as old as 5,000 years
have been put on display at the National Museum in Tehran >>>
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Monday
May 22, 2000
* Iranians big winners at Cannes
CANNES, France (AP) - Danish director Lars von Trier and singer Bjork
celebrated joint triumphs and a truce after ``Dancer in the Dark'' won
the Palme d'Or in Cannes and the best actress award for the Icelandic musician.
Iranian cinema garnered a clutch of awards. The jury prize was tied between
20-year-old Samira Makhmalbaf of Iran for ``Blackboard'' >>>
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* Book: Khuzestan
Tehran, (Hamshahri) -- Mousa Siyadat's "History of Khuzestan since
the Afshar period" has just been published. It describes the history
of two main tribes in the province: The Arabs and the Bakhtiaris >>> FULL
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* Building more libraries
Tehran, (Hamshahri) -- The government is spending three billion tomans
to buy books for libraries this year. It is also planning to build 400
new libraries during the next five years >>>
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