Warning: May cause the urge to dance.
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POETS
Photo essay: Poets and performers from across Canada
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This is a commentary on current issues which was broadcast on Nov. 21st on My-Iran TV in Portland, OR.
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LIFE
Tehran was my beautiful ugly city, sprawling at the bottom of so many mountains surrounding it
I am a Tehran girl. I was born in Tehran’s Amirieh neighborhood, but moved to Tehran Pars with my family before I turned one. The quiet and sleepy suburban neighborhood had all that was ideal about raising children, I guess. The perfect new streets, all straight and numbered, were signs that this was one of the first planned neighborhoods of Tehran. It had amenities no other neighborhood had as yet, a huge playground, a modern public swimming pool, a drive-in cinema, two adjacent elementary schools for girls and boys, and even aspirations for a casino!
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Maziar Bahari explains his detention in Evin prison with Fareed Zakari.
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"The Poot" is a 40 min. documentary about the handmade carpets of Persia. The documentary maker is the 29-year old Elham Asadi from Tehran.
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The challenges of communicating in Farsi and Dari.
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Mossadegh “didn’t see Bahá’ís as a threat and generally considered them part of the nation of Iran, [entitled to] the same rights as the Muslims.”) Mohammad Reza Shah allowed Falsafi and others to violently attack Bahais
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And Thankful in adversity
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