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Loris in Berkeley

Maestro Loris Tjeknavorian was a guest of Berkeley Persian Center in the San Francisco Bay Area in March. A suite from his opera, Rostam and

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Rooting for Ross

On Friday, May 9th, 2008, a fundraising event for the re-election of Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi in San Francisco’s District 5 was held at the popular

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Discovery Time

Before my older son started driving his own car, I used to drive my children around a lot. Those times I spent in the car

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Art With a Heart

For several weeks now, we have been preparing for Iranian.com’s fundraiser which takes place tonight. My friends, Maryam Majidy, Lale’ Welsh, Amir Salamat, Bruce Bahmani,

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You Are Invited!

My Dear Fellow Iranian.com Community: You must have seen the advertisement for Iranian.com’s upcoming April 19th event in San Francisco on the site by now.

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Joy of cooking

REVIEW Happy Nowruz Cooking With Children to Celebrate the Persian New Year by Najmieh Batmanglij Mage Publishers, 2008 Every year at this time, I get

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Bita Prize for Behbahani

Iranian poet Simin Behbahani is the first recipient of Stanford University’s . The new $10,000 prize is part of the Daryabari Persian Studies Fund, recently

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For Abadan

I read in the news that Tehran has signed a pact to help rebuild Baghdad. If it weren’t so painful to contemplate this news, it

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The Lost Legend

Three thousand people watched the New York City Ballet performance every night, a performance which invariably ended in standing ovations and a crowd that simply

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The Lost Legend in Pictures

Three thousand people watched the New York City Ballet performance every night, a performance which invariably ended in standing ovations and a crowd that simply

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Nazeris on fire

The Passion of Rumi: Vocals: Shahram Nazeri. Composed: Hafez Nazeri. Barbat: Mohammad Firouzi. Kamancheh Alto: Shervin Mohajer. Daf: Siavash Nazeri. Tombak and Damam: Pejham Akhavas.

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Peace on Earth

Some people believe as Iranians and born Moslems, Christmas is not a celebration for us. I have known Iranian parents who tell their kids “We

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Happiest thing

This is a true story. I have changed minor details, have omitted events directly irrelevant to the spirit of the story, and have given fictitious

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Longing for clay

Quite by accident, I came to know an accomplished Iranian artist in our community in Berkeley. His name is Farrokh Shehabi, and he is a

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Shape and purpose

Quite by accident, I came to know an accomplished Iranian artist in our community in Berkeley. His name is Farrokh Shehabi, and he is a

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My generation

In his photo essay entitled “Bacheh enghelaabi” (Revolutionary child) Jahanshah Javid says: ..”many Iranian youths today commonly turn to their parents and say: ‘We are

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