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* Film: Divorce Iranian
Style, In New York
* Comedy: "Matique"
comedy play in Bay Area & Washington
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* Politics: Payman in
Los Angeles
* Play: Kowsar directs
"The Rover"
* Play: "Remembering
The Unforgettable" in Berkeley
* Film: Ramin Naimi's "Somewhere
in the City"
* Religion: Lecture on Hejrat,
in Bay Area
* Film: Iranian women of
film in New York
* Secretary: Persian Heritage
Foundation in New York
* Film: Mehrjui and pre-79
cinema in New York
* Film: Women bring Iranian
cinema to the U.S.
* Film: Ramin Naimi's film
in San Francisco
* Internship: Christine
Mirzayan Memorial Fund
* Film: Mehrjoui in Washington,
DC
* Shahnameh: Ghaem Maghami in
Palo Alto
* Art show: Qajar paintings
at Brooklyn Museum of Art
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* Divorce Iranian Style, In New York
FILM FORUM - NEW YORK CITY
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9 - TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22 2 WEEKS
DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE
Directed by Kim Longinotto and Ziba Mir-Hosseini
ENGLAND, 1998
80 MINS.
IN FARSI WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
One woman tells the judge her husband is crazy: in 30 years he has refused
to let her answer the phone. (In Iran "craziness" is one of the
few acceptable grounds for divorce when proceedings are brought by a woman;
for men, divorce is granted upon request.) A 16-year-old, married at age
14 to a man 2 1/2 times her age, explains that she desperately wants a
divorce to go back to school. Another pleads for custody of her 4-year-old
daughter, having already lost custody of the older child. "You're
poisoning my tea," mutters the judge to a woman who insists he find
her misplaced file within the hour (he had suggested she return in a week).
Inside an Iranian divorce court, a stream of veiled women (some only teenager
others elderly) make use of reason, wit, charm, and chicanery to get what
they want above all else: a divorce. Daily: 2, 3:40, 5:20, 7, 8:40, 10:20
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* "Matique" comedy play in Bay Area & Washington
"MATIQUE"
In Bay Area:
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 21ST. TIME: 8:30 LOCATION: FOOTHILL
COLLEGE "SMITHWICK THEATRE" 12345 EL MONTE RD., LOS ALTOS HILLS
INFO & RESERVATION: (408) 255-7363 TICKET: $20.00
In Washington DC area:
Sunday, November 22, 8 pm. Thomas Jefferson Community Theater, 125 South
Glebe Road, Arlington, VA. Tickets: $25 - $30. Information: 703-255-3000.
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* Ramin Naimi's "Somewhere in the City"
A noir screwball comedy, that threads the overlapping stories of six
residents of a New York City tenement apartment building. Starring: Sandra
Bernhard, Robert John Burke, Bai Ling, Ornella Muti, Paul Anthony Stewart,
Peter Stormare.
Opera Plaza Cinema -San Francisco
601 Van Ness Ave Tel; 415-352-0810
Mon-Thu 4:20-7:00-9:15 Fri-Sun 2:00-4:20-7:00-9:15
Limited Engagement
November 20th San Jose - Camera Theater
November 20th Sacramento - Crest Theater
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* Lecture on Hejrat, in Bay Area
Dr. Mirza Aghassi will be in San Francisco's Bay Area this Fri. 11/20
& Sun. 11/22
This Friday, Nov. 20th, Dr. Hamid Mirza Aghassi, a renowned Qur'anic
scholar will lecture on Hejrat in Farsi. His lecture will be held at the
Sunnyvale Community Center located at 550 E. Remmington Drive (please call
408-730-7350 for directions). The program will start at 8:30 p.m.
Also, this Sun. Nov. 22nd, Dr. Mirza Aghassi will teach an interactive
Qur'an class in English, including for youth. This class will be from 1
to 5 p.m. and will be held at the Montevideo Improvement Association located
at 1585 Monteval lane in San Jose (corner of Camden Ave. & Monteval).
For further information, please call (408) 737-1464 or (800) 919-2011.
Both programs are presented by Bonyad-e-Towhid. Admissions are free.
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* Iranian women of film in New York
THURSDAY NIGHT, NOV 19 @ 6:00 in 511 Dodge Hall, Columbia University
Open to the public. Free admission, limited seating (COME EARLY!)
The Iranian feature film "The Legend of Sigh" by Tehmina Milani
will be screened followed by a panel discussion with several prominent
women of filmmaking from Iran, including Niki Karimi, the famous actress.
Professor Hamid Dabashi will moderate, along with Dan Kleinmann, Dean of
the School of the Arts.
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* Kowsar directs "The Rover"
The Rover
Written by Aphra Behn
Directed by Mohammad Kowsar
November 19 - 22 Thursday - Saturday, 8 pm; Sunday, 2 pm
Little Theatre, Creative Arts Building, San Francisco State University
$10 general, students, seniors Special Discount Offer
Written by the great Restoration playwright Aphra Behn, The Rover depicts
the sojourn of rowdy cavaliers and exiled anti-Cromwellians seeking romance,
sex, fortune and adventure in Italy during the month of Carnival. Disguises,
cross-purposes, duels, intrigues and comic relief guarantee both poetic
justice and the final triumph of superior female intellect. This piece,
an instant classic of English Drama, brought not only fame to its feisty
author, but also literary immortality.... MORE
DETAILS
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* Ramin Naimi's film in San Francisco
There is a movie by Ramin Niami named "Somewhere in the City"
which will be playing at the Opera Plaza, San Francisco. Show times: 4:20
, 7 and 9:15 Friday Nov 13 - Thursday Nov 19 2, 4:20 , 7 and 9:15 Sat&
Sunady. Opera Plaza: 415-352-0810
Thanks to Hamid Asayesh
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* Women bring Iranian cinema to the U.S.
WASHINGTON, DC -- Six of Iran's foremost women film-makers will visit
the U.S. in November as part of a continuing effort to foster greater American-Iranian
understanding. The visit is being organized by Search for Common Ground
(SCG), a Washington-based conflict resolution organization, and Khaneh
Cinema, a professional association for film-makers in Iran, in close cooperation
with the Film Center at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago and
the Film Society at Lincoln Center in New York.
Two actresses, two directors, one editor, and one producer will visit
Chicago from November 13-18, and New York from November 18-23, to screen
their films, meet with American film-makers, hold roundtable discussions
on "Women & Film in Iran", and interact with audiences. Click
here to see biographies of the film-makers... FULL
TEXT
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* Christine Mirzayan Memorial Fund
The National Academy of Sciences has established the Christine Mirzayan
Memorial Fund to celebrate Christine's love of life, enthusiasm for science,
intelligence and high aspirations for contributing to human welfare. Mirzayan,
a highly regarded 28-year-old biologist was raped and murdered in a Washington
DC's Georgetown last August 1... DETAILS
HERE
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* Mehrjoui in Washington, DC
Dariush Mehrjoui will present his latest film "Golabi" ("The
Pear") at Washington DC's American Film institute on November 24.
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* Secretary needed: Persian Heritage Foundation in New York
The Persian Heritage Foundation in New York seeks a part-time secretary,
proficient in typing in Persian and familiar with MacIntosh system, for
about 8-10 hours a week. Please contact Dina Amin by fax on (212) 749-9524
or email at dea1@columbia.edu. Remuneration
negotiable and commensurate with experience.
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* Ghaem Maghami & Shahnameh, Palo Alto
Stanford's Persian Student Association (PSA) and Persian Center Proudly
Present: "An Evening with Saeed Ghaem Maghami on Shahnameh."
Saeed Ghaem Maghami, after years of research and work with the masters
of the Persian literature, presents his masterful narration of the Shahnameh,
one of the greatest works in Persian Poetry by Hakim Abolghassem Ferdowsi.
Date: Friday, November 20, 1998
Place: Stanford University, Tresidder Memorial Union, Palo Alto, California
Time: 7:00 PM Admission: $10 (General), Free (Students)
Information: (408) 295-1240, (408) 260-2838
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* Call for Papers: Qajar art
From: Andrew Newman AJN@holyrood.ed.ac.uk
THE QAJAR EPOCH Culture, Art & Architecture in Qajar Persia 2-4
September 1999 The 'Qajar Epoch' conference will be held at the School
of Oriental and African Studies in London from the 2nd until the 4th of
September 1999. The focus of the conference will be on the Culture, Art
& Architecture of the Qajar period. The conference is part of a two
conference series. The second conference, which will focus on Religion
and Society of the Qajar Period, will be held in September 2000... DETAILS HERE
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* "Remembering The Unforgettable" in Berkeley
DARVAG ARTS FOUNDATION PRESENTS:
A glimpse at our lives as Iranian exiles and the emotional ties that
we share with compatriots who spent the best years of their lives as political
prisoners in the prisons of the Islamic Republic regime:
"Remembering The Unforgettable"
A play Written and Directed By: Hossein K. Jah
Featuring: Roham Sheikhani, Sana Nouri, Hossein K. Jah
November 20, 21, 22, 27, 28, 29 at 8:00 P.M.
$12 Night of Performance, $10 Reservation
Darvag Theatre
3280 Adeline St.
Berkeley
Sponsored by: The Committee for Freedom of Thought and Expression in
Iran (Northern California)
For Information and Reservation 510-466-5299
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* Payman in Los Angeles
Dr. Habibollah Peyman is giving a talk at University of California,
Los Angeles, (UCLA), Dodd Hall 147, on Saturday Nov. 21 from 5-10 pm.
Subject: The current intellectual trend in teh Islamic Republic of Iran
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