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Simply dazzling

Ferdowsi packs so much literature in his verses that storytellers, singers, percussionists, and painters have traditionally helped unpack his work for us. For a thousand years, this collaboration of the letters and the arts in ghahveh khaneh (coffee house) settings has upgraded and refreshed the Iranian national identity. To commemorate the Shahnameh millennium, the Seventh Biennial Conference of the International Society for Iranian Studies will include a multi-media concert combining Shahnameh storytelling (naghali), Shahnameh-inspired orchestral music, and visual presentations of scenes from the epic>>>

احمدی نژاد بزرگترین خطر

بیانیه سازمانهای جبهه ملی ایران در خارج از کشور>>>

Fresh addiction

Last weekend I met two (wonderful) 127 band members Sohrab Mohebbi and Salmak Khaledi at the home of BeyondPersia.com's Lalé Welsh and Amir Salamat near San Francisco. We listened to their entire new album "Khal Punk" and I was quite devastated by their musical range (mixing rock, rap, jazz, Iranian... ) and powerful lyrics. Their songs are addictive, and smart, and fun, and full of energy and lots and lots of plain truth. Ladies and gentleman, we have another super band! >>>

حدیث یار ها

ما نخوردیم آب سیری از جمال روی دوست

ای خنک حالات و روز و بخت برخوردارها.

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"Hate Couture" and "Terror Scarves": An All New Low, If That Were Even Possible!

Dunkin' Donuts, recently pulled an ad in which a well-known celebrity chef, Rachel Ray, dons the traditional Arab garment known as the keffiyeh under pressure from rightwing hatemongers>>>

Demonstrations in front of Iranian Embassies all over the World.

Our Team-e Melli is on the verge of elimination. We are getting to demonstrate against Iranian Football Federation (IFF) in Iran and other countries.>>>

Shahbanou Farah, Deneuve, Sarkozy & Wife: Yves Saint Laurant Funeral

Paris mourns legend Saint Laurent .The great and the good of the fashion world gathered in a Paris church to pay their last respects to fashion icon Yves Saint Laurent.

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