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Nov 23-27, 1998 / Azar 2-6, 1377
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* Forouhar meomrial:
- New York
- Washington DC
- Houston
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* Seminar: Iran-Taliban
seminar, New York
* Film: Divorce Iranian
Style, In New York
* Play: "Remembering
The Unforgettable" in Berkeley
* Film: Ramin Naimi's "Somewhere
in the City"
* 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
* Art show: Qajar paintings
at Brooklyn Museum of Art
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* Day of mourning for the Forouhars, New York
Nation's Party of Iran (abroad) Organizations of National Front of Iran
- New York
Wake for Daryoosh and Parvaneh Forouhar
Jebhe Melli Iran (New York) and the Nation's Party of Iran are having
a program in New York on December 4th in Columbia University's Hamilton
Hall, Room 602. The program will start at 6:30 P.M.
Place: Hamilton Hall, Room 602 Columbia University Manhattan, New York
Broadway & 116th Streert
All are invited to attend
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* Day of mourning for the Forouhars, Houston
From: Iranian Residents and Members of the National Front, Houston
Subject: Memorial for Daryoush and Parvaheh Forouhar
Iranian residents of Houston, including members of Jebh-e Melli Iran,
have sponsored a memorial on November 28, at 7:30 p.m. at Iran Cultural
and Religious Center (Bonyad Farhangi va Deeni Iran) in Houston. Everyone
is invited. Address: Bonyad Farhangi va Deeni Iran 2426 Tanglewild
street Houston, Texas
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* Day of mourning for the Forouhars, Washington DC
When? Saturday November 28th, 1998, at 7:30PM
Where? American University, Ward II building, Washington DC
Iran National Front, USA hereby declares November 28, 1998 (7th day
of Azar, 1377), the 7th day after the assassination of Dariush and Parvcaneh
Forouhar, as a national memorial day in their honor. In Washington DC,
we invite all Iranians to participate in a gathering at the American University,
Ward II building, on Saturday November 28th, 1998 at 7:30PM. Your presence
will show the solidarity of all Iranians around the world with the people
in Iran, in disapproving terrorism. We express support for liberty-loving
people, who are horrified by this barbaric terrorist deed. We believe this
issue will not pass easily. It is up to all of us to take all measures
necessary to uncover the true perpetrators of these assassinations.
Iran National Front, for democracy (INF)
Dept. of International Affairs
Director: Shahram Kheyltash
P.O. Box 447
Falls Church, VA 22040-0447, USA
Tel: (703) 266-4114
Fax: (703) 471-1101
//jebhe.org
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* Iran-Taliban seminar, New York
The Open Society Institute's Central Eurasia Project invites you to
attend :
The Stakes of the Iran-Taliban Confrontation
Central Asian Open Forum
Thursday, December 3, 1998
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Olivier Roy
Senior Researcher
National Center for Scientific Research
Presider: Anthony Richter
Open Society Institute
Dr. Olivier Roy is presently a senior researcher at CNRS (French National
Center for Scientific Research) He has also been a consultant for UNOCHA
(United Nations Office of the Coordinator for Afghanistan) in 1988, and
was Special Envoy for the OSCE in Tajikistan (1993), then Head of OSCE's
Mission for Tajikistan (1994). Field work include Political Islam, Middle
East, Central Asia. His main publications are: "Islam and Resistance
in Afghanistan", Cambridge University Press, second ed. 1990 (translated
from the French), "The Failure of Political Islam", Harvard University
Press (1994) (translation of" L'Echec de l'Islam politique",
Le Seuil, Paris 1992), "Genealogie de l'Islamisme", Hachette,
1995, and "La Nouvelle Asie Centrale ou la fabrication des nations",
Le Seuil, 1997.
Open Society Institute
400 West 59th Street (conference room 4D)
New York, NY 10019
You must RSVP in order to attend.
RSVP to Katya Nadirova (212) 548-0612 fax (212) 548-4607
email: knadirova@sorosny.org
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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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* 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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* 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
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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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* "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 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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