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* Music: Swedish award
for Bani-etemad
* Music: Afghani music
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* Art: Shirin Neshat,
New York
* Art: Qajar symposium, New
York
* Literature: Obituary:
Hamid Mossadegh
* Literature: The last word
* Film: Iran's first "3-D"
film
* Literature: Hamid Mossadeq
dies in Tehran
* Music: "The Jerk":
A serious comedy
* Theater: Festival will go
international
* Music: "Iranian
Orchestra of New Persian Music"
* Literature: Shahnameh guide
published
* Archaeology: 6,500-year-old
remains
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* Swedish award for Bani-etemad
TEHARN, (Hamshahri) - A Swedish cultural organization will award filmmaker
Rakhshan Bani-etamd for her exceptional work in the field of art and culture
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* Afghani music
TEHARN, (Hamshahri) - A Swedish cultural organization will award filmmaker
Rakhshan Bani-etamd for her exceptional work in the field of art and culture
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* ART IN REVIEW: Shirin Neshat, New York
By HOLLAND COTTER
11/27/1998
The New York Times
Shirin Neshat 'Turbulent'
Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris
120 Park Avenue, at 42d Street Manhattan
Through Jan. 15
Shirin Neshat, born in Iran in 1957, is best known for self-portrait
photographs in which she appears in a body-covering black chador, the female
garb as dictated by Islamic tradition, with a gun barrel protruding from
her robes. Gender politics is her subject; the repression of woman, whether
through fundamentalism or cultural exoticizing, is her target.... FULL TEXT
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* Qajar symposium, New York
The Brooklyn Museum of Art and the New York University Hagop Kevorkian
Center for Near Eastern Studies are pleased to present:
RE-PRESENTING THE QAJARS:
New Research in the Study of 19th Century Iran
Friday, December 11, 1998 at NYU, 1 pm to 5:30 pm and Saturday, December
12, 1998 at Brooklyn Museum of Art, 9am to 5:30 pm
Expanding upon themes in the special exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum
of Art, "Royal Persian Paintings: The Qajar Epoch 1785-1925,"
the symposiumwill bring together scholars of art, history, and culture
to discuss issues of representation, identity, revivalism, and modernity
in Iranian visual imagery and culture. For a complete listing of locations,
who will be presenting, and which specific topics will be presented, please
visit:
www.nyu.edu/gsas/program/neareast/events.html
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* Obituary: Hamid Mossadegh
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - A biography of the late poet and grandson of prime
minister Mohammad Mossadegh ... FULL
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* The last word
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - A review of Hamid Mossadegh's last book of poems
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* Iran's first "3-D" film
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - Faramarz Qahramani-far has directed Iran's first
3-D motion picture ... FULL
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* Hamid Mossadeq dies in Tehran
TEHRAN, Nov 28 (AFP) - Hamid Mossadeq, grandson of one of Iran's most
popular and controversial prime ministers Mohammad Mossadeq, died in Tehran
on Saturday following a heart attack. The 59-year-old Mossadeq died in
a Tehran hospital, the official news agency IRNA reported ... FULL TEXT
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* "The Jerk": A serious comedy
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - Mohammad Reza Honarmand gets high marks for a
masterful direction of "Mard-e avazi" (The Jerk), a comedy that
is on the same level as Mehrjuie's "Ejaareh-neshin-haa" (The
Tenants) ... FULL
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* Theater festival will go international
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - This year's Fajr Theater Festival will include
performances by foreign groups ... FULL
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* "Iranian Orchestra of New Persian Music"
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - Alireza Mashayekhi is the founder of the Iranian
Orchestra of New Persian Music. Here's an interview ... FULL
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* Shahnameh guide published
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - A book listing all the names of persons and places
in the Shahnameh has been published by Hossein Shahidi Mazandarani ...
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* Archaeology: 6,500-year-old remains
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - Archaeological digs begin at Qarreh Tappeh's 6,500-year-old
remains near Qamrood in Qom Province ... FULL
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